Being Quote by John Sarbanes

In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national…

— Chellie Pingree

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of…

— Davy Crockett

From campaign contributions to expensive perks paid for by special interests, wealthy donors and corporate special interests have increasingly been able to purchase influence…

— Sara Gideon

You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a hamburger or a steak or something like that. But you can…

— Jack Abramoff

You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a hamburger or a steak or something like that. But you can…

— Jack Abramoff

We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members…

— Marcy Kaptur

If you create a system that makes the small donors the linchpin of the system in terms of how members of Congress directly raise…

— John Sarbanes

Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent…

— Woodrow Wilson

'We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of…

— Andrew Guzaldo

Believe it or not, there are members of Congress who actually want to govern and get stuff done. Unfortunately, there are others whose agendas…

— Jon Runyan

$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

— William J. Clinton

I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.

— Al Gore