Addresses Quote by John McCain

“If we don’t enact sweeping campaign finance reform we will never see progress on the major issues facing our country… as the special interests…

— Wendell Potter

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

— Anonymous

“Is there a way forward, when campaign financing and mega-lobbying have displaced the common good and have led Americans to despair about the functioning…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets…

— Barack Obama

“the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, DeVos defended the unlimited contributions. “Soft money,” she wrote, was just “hard-earned American dollars that Big Brother has…

— Jane Mayer

“Soft money,” she wrote, was just “hard-earned American dollars that Big Brother has yet to find a way to control. That is all it…

— Jane Mayer

“With the land and possession of America rapidly passing into the hands of a favored few; with great corporations taking the place of individual…

— Clarence Darrow

With the growing influence of big money in politics, it's time for Congress to reform America's outdated campaign finance system.

— Ben Ray Lujan

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

— Tom Daschle

Stemming the tide of special interest campaign cash - and restoring fiscal responsibility in Congress - is no easy task. But there is one…

— Alan K. Simpson

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

— Anonymous

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions…

— Scott McCallum