Action Quote by Zephyr Teachout

The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically…

— John Sarbanes

“The group’s lists had value, and lawyers for Ready for Hillary and the Clinton campaign would spend weeks planning how they could legally transfer…

— Jonathan Allen

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

Most super PACs are a money-laundering operation that exists solely to enrich the members or its founders.

— Mike Cernovich

The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than…

— Nina Easton

If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union…

— Alan K. Simpson

Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.

— Bradley A. Smith

To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They…

— Stephen Colbert

With this new stupid Supreme Court ruling, secret money can come in on an unlimited level from corporations. Nobody knows where it comes from.…

— Jimmy Carter

But surely no company is going to launch an advertising campaign if it thinks it will lose money; therefore, by definition, any social justice-orientated…

— Owen Jones

Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support.

— Mary Lou Retton

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend…

— Tony Visconti