Challenges Quote by Jose Angel Gurria

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

— Stephen Pagliuca

Public financing would fix campaign donor problems.

— Hillary Clinton

I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but no limits.…

— David Brooks

Dependence on private money to run campaigns causes pain to Republicans and Democrats alike - and business owners. It's time we did something about…

— Zephyr Teachout

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial…

— Bradley A. Smith

Public campaign financing isn't perfect and can doubtlessly be improved upon as we go.

— Molly Ivins

Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions…

— Ron Paul

The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money.

— Zephyr Teachout

I am an advocate... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would…

— Christopher Dodd

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

— John Bolton

One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections.

— Zephyr Teachout

Voluntary public funding of elections solves the free speech 'problem' with more speech instead of more regulation: by giving qualified candidates who show broad-based…

— Alan K. Simpson