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I don't think there's a conflation between somebody's personal wealth and whether they should run for office or not, assuming that they're not actually…

— Julie Roginsky

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy…

— John Kasich

The basic problem is for a congressman or a president to get elected, they need obscene amounts of money. And the only place you…

— Peter Navarro

The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money…

— Russell Simmons

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected…

— Dick Murphy

The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that…

— Beau Willimon

Politically, as a result of Citizens United, billionaires are now able to spend as much money as they want on campaigns, which means that…

— Bernie Sanders

The illegitimate money made by corrupt public servants and the power that it gives them is then also used to perpetuate them in office.…

— Prashant Bhushan

Billionaires and corporations buy and sell politicians, while citizens struggle to exercise their right to vote or hold their elected representatives to account.

— Mehdi Hasan

There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in my view,…

— Bernie Sanders

There's a small amount of super-wealthy people that want to maintain their billions and billions of dollars. Those are the people who are really…

— Conor Oberst

I am really rich. All of my life I have heard a truly successful, and even a modestly successful person, cannot run for public…

— Donald Trump