Quotes About PACs

leadership PACs are not about benefits for districts: they are about benefits for members of Congress.

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

I think there's a lot of reasons for having an extended primary. I think super PACs play a role.

It's time for grassroots citizens to have a president that's focused on them rather than the super PACs.

The average citizen saw that the big PACs with the billionaires and the multimillionaires get what they want in Washington, but the average citizen is left behind.

PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

I'll be active in politics through PACs at a later date.

PACs don't vote in the district; people do.

Both Obama and Romney are just rolling in PAC money. Plus, they have the super PAC's behind them. They've got multi-millionaires and billionaires just buying 30-second ads. It gives each of them tremendous exposure.

The PAC was one of four affiliated super PACS in the network, including Keep the Promise I, a PAC managed by Kellyanne Conway, which received $11 million from Robert Mercer, and Keep the Promise III, which received $15 million from the families of Texas fracking billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks.

If Fay has twins, she'll probably have two pacs. Get it? Tu... Pac's.

And right after the decision removing limits from PAC donations, the number of business PACs increased from three hundred to twelve hundred, generating gushers of money that helped triple the cost of campaigns for a House seat by the mid-1980s, which in turn gave PACs more power, and so on it has gone ever since, a vicious cycle corrupting democracy.