Behalf Quote by Karl Rove

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 fact remains that we're running a presidential campaign. And we're doing that through appearances like today, fund-raisers like today, where Donald Trump was…

— Kellyanne Conway

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed…

— John Harwood

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

The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.

— Newt Gingrich

Republicans are being loyal to their donors. They're being loyal to the paymasters, if you will. And it's squandering an opportunity.

— Rush Limbaugh

The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large as the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The Republicans had a real advantage over the Democrats for a long time. And the principal advantage they have had is they have concentrated…

— Elizabeth Warren

People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate,…

— Brian Sandoval

“In the budget the term we use for it is bracketing. We hire a contractor, like Bob Creamer, to do this work of organizing…

— Donna Brazile

“In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope…

— Matt Taibbi