Campaign Quote by Molly Ivins Download Open image “Public campaign financing isn't perfect and can doubtlessly be improved upon as we go.” — Molly Ivins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Campaign Go Improved Perfect Public
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 Copy Share Image
The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges of democracies today is the question of financing campaigns. It's a tremendous challenge. Obviously I think the solution is… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
I think you need clarity with financing [for presidency campaign]. I do think this. I think that you need clarity, you have to be… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With every new class of representatives that comes to Congress, there is a greater recognition of the perils of private financing of campaigns. I… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off. — Frances Farenthold Copy Share Image
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The #MeToo campaign is monumental. It is giving a voice to so many too scared to speak out before. — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down. — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe.… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
I'm of the philosophy that you wage a campaign of full engagement and you use every tool in the toolbox. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm going to have to campaign to teach Bolivians who the president is, because apparently they haven't realized I'm here yet. — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask me where… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
“...the weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water...To cap our woe, there was no means to light… — Leonce Patry Copy Share Image
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
President Obama had voiced strong support for the effort in Afghanistan during his campaign, pledging to add two brigades, which he did. But since… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide. — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image