Advantage Quote by Mark Shields

With the growing influence of big money in politics, it's time for Congress to reform America's outdated campaign finance system.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

I think there is an overwhelming support for campaign finance reform, and that includes conservatives and Republicans. Where the problem is is with the…

— Richard Painter

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

— John Rawls

The incumbents just have a ton more money because they have rigged the system to help themselves, because they have these networks of small…

— David Brooks

“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

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be…

— Elena Kagan

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

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 reality is we that have a corrupt campaign finance system which separates the American people's needs and desires from what Congress is doing.…

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Anonymous

“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