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Quotes About Citizens United

In the Senate, I will push to overturn Citizens United as I've been vocal about since I first served on the Town Council.
~ Sara Gideon
I'm running for Senate to create real change in Washington, which starts with getting big money out of politics and overturning Citizens United.
~ Sara Gideon
Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.
~ Michael Moore
Research who your politicians are, even; know what they do, know who they're supported by legislatively, and know who is supporting them financially for their campaigns. Because ever since Citizens United, we've seen a massive growth in the amount of campaign contributions and corruption in politics as a result, and that has to change.
~ David Hogg
Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United!
~ Bernie Sanders
One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.
~ Hillary Clinton
It's time to review what damage the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has done to our political system.
~ Bob Beckel
Citizens United, I believe, will be regarded by history as one of the worst decisions this Supreme Court - or any Supreme Court - has ever made. It is distorting our political process and corrupting our government.
~ Brad Schneider
If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.
~ Hillary Clinton
Legislation to level the playing field for working families is dead on arrival in the Citizens United Congress.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
~ Ted Deutch
The dreadful decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission was the culmination of the Republican appointees' careful work to open American politics to corporate influence.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
The Citizens United ruling opened the door for tax-exempt social welfare organizations to spend substantial portions of their funds on campaign activities, without having to disclose where that money came from.
~ Michelle Lujan Grisham
The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.
~ Jesse Ventura
The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government's control, and we can be glad that it did.
~ Bradley A. Smith
Wealthy individuals have always had the capacity to influence politics, of course, but only after two key campaign finance cases - Wisconsin Right to Life and and Citizens United, have they been able to do it in such a large and blatant way.
~ Zephyr Teachout
I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.
~ Bernie Sanders
The Supreme Court decided that corporations are people and they have the right of free speech and the right without disclosure—all of this is through the Citizens United Supreme Court decision—to put as much money as they want into campaigns all over the country.
~ Bernie Sanders
Not one word about income inequality, climate change, Citizens United or student debt. That's why the Rs are so out of touch.
~ Bernie Sanders
Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United and end the movement toward oligarchy that we are seeing in this country.
~ Bernie Sanders
Either you're for ending Citizens United, or you're not. So, if you're for ending Citizens United, then act like you are against corporations influencing our democratic process.
~ Rashida Tlaib
A lot of the Citizens United problem could be solved if we knew where the money came from for all these ads. The companies create these entities with fake names - like 'Citizens for Nice Puppies' - which means that the sources of the money are unaccountable.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
The founder of Citizens United, a right-wing political group, became Trump's deputy campaign manager in 2016 and has been credibly accused of operating a scam to rip off MAGA donors. A right-wing legal group that for a decade laid important groundwork for the Citizens United case was the James Madison Center, founded in 1997 by Senator Mitch McConnell with funds provided by Betsy DeVos.
~ Kurt Andersen