Campaign Finance Reform Quotes

• Admiro la forma en que McCain trabajó en la reforma de la financiación de las campañas. Admiro el modo en que Nancy Pelosi endureció la columna vertebral de los demócratas durante el debate sobre la sanidad. Admiro el modo en que Barack Obama ha criado un perro en la Casa Blanca sin subirlo nunca al techo del coche para ir de vacaciones.

  Gail Collins

  Dog, Vacation, White

  "Politicians, Love ’Em or Hate ’Em". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

  Ben Nelson

  Challenges, Wish, Reform

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• The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Numbers, United States, Reform

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

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Political, Culture, Campaigns

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• Nadie quiere la reforma de la financiación de las campañas más que yo. Me ahorraría una fortuna.

  Andrew Tobias

  Reforma, Campañas, Want

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• Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

  Andrew Card

  Successful, Important, Reform

  "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. January 21, 2001.

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• En realidad, las sanciones penales que se dan podrían ser de hasta cinco años por violar las normas y reglamentos de la reforma de la financiación de campañas. Esto es como la Ley de Extranjería y Sedición de hace años y años, hace décadas.

  Jay Sekulow

  Years, Campaign Finance, Regulation

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• The leftists are constantly whining and moaning about all the money in politics. They want campaign finance reform, right? They want to get all the money out of politics. They want government money governing campaigns. They want all the money out, they say. But then you look at their coffers, and it's overflowing with hundreds of millions of dollars.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Reform, Dollars

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• From 1976, Judy to 1996, we had six presidential elections. And it was run under the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974. In all six of them, every candidate agreed to limits of what he could collect in contributions and what he could spend in seeking a nomination. And they all abided by it.

  Mark Shields

  Running, Presidential, Reform

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so as to give their candidate an edge and allow the power of massive money to be felt. But reform laws will become irrelevant and redundant as the Internet replaces the special-interest fat cats as the best way to raise money and takes the place of TV as the most effective way to get votes.

  Dick Morris

  Cat, Law, Giving

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• Estamos muy frustrados porque tenemos un Tribunal Supremo que parece decidido a decir que los más ricos tienen más derecho a la libertad de expresión que el resto de nosotros. Por ejemplo, dicen que no podrían impedirme gastar todo el dinero que he ahorrado en los últimos cinco años en la campaña de Hillary si quisiera, aunque eso violaría claramente el espíritu de la reforma de la financiación de las campañas.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Frustrated, Example

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• Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

  Matt Welch

  Reform, Campaigns, Magazines

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• Democrats' desperate attempt to focus on campaign finance reform instead of laws that may have been broken by the Clinton-Gore campaign is like Mike Tyson demanding a reform in boxing regulations after biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.

  Cal Thomas

  Law, Broken, Boxing

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• Me parece que los estudiantes son muy firmes en mis temas, más firmes que nadie: contra la pena de muerte, contra los perfiles raciales, reforma de la financiación de las campañas, cuestionamiento del proyecto de ley antiterrorista.

  Russ Feingold

  Fuerte, Cuestiones, Reforma

  Entrevista con Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. 30 de abril de 2002.

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• It's just a lot safer to be an incumbent. So I think they have used the campaign finance reforms. They have passed laws that will help themselves stay in office. And I think that's one of the flaws that we do have in the system.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Law, Office

  "Shields and Brooks on the power of campaign donors, baseball vs. baby". "News Hour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 4, 2014.

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• For many years, we have had these campaign finance reforms, and they have been failures. Money is more coursing through our system than ever before. Incumbents have used the laws to advantage themselves. And one of the reasons I think they have been failures is we have tried to crush down the money in places like the political parties, and it has squished out into opaque super PACs and sort of hidden channels.

  Mark Shields

  Crush, Party, Thinking

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign finance reform would be irrelevant. After all, why would anyone spend money for influence, access, favors and tribute if the only thing that politicians do is to live up to their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution?

  Walter E. Williams

  Issues, Reform, Would Be

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• Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years in believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing.

  Robert Torricelli

  Believe, Years, Reform

  "Senate to take up softened campaign finance reform" por Jonathan Karl, www.cnn.com. 12 de octubre de 1999.

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• For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics. ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me.

  Anthony Gregory

  Country, Religious, Believe

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