10/01/1999
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"We owe it to our children not to take a stable universe away from them."
"Our democracy is the oldest and most successful in the world, but we know that there is something wrong with the way we pay for elections."
"The way we pay for elections is broken; it's time to fix it."
"There's simply too much money required for campaigns, it takes too much time to raise, and it raises too many questions."