Access Quote by William Weld

That which is gained at the bargaining table can be lost at the ballot box

— Walter Reuther

Federal law must be followed where federal dollars are in play.

— Betsy DeVos

Money has much more power down the ballot.

— Jane Mayer

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.

— Bernie Sanders

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

Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was…

— Michael Chertoff

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going…

— Olympia Snowe

The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend…

— Hillary Clinton

It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those…

— Alexander Hamilton

I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates.

— James Douglas

I don't have a problem with the Centre sanctioning funds to any state. However, when this is done for narrow political considerations, it damages…

— Naveen Patnaik