"I hate raising money for campaigns. The only two people I know who enjoyed it both went to prison."
"The last thing the American people need is for this body to heap greater debt on the backs of our progeny for the sakes of political campaigns."
"I can't imagine anybody likes doing that. I can't imagine anybody wants to push this."
"I would like to see us implement a system very similar to what we are talking about in Maine."
"If we had full public financing here, a voluntary system...would we be struggling this week to figure out how to put together a health-care bill?"
"Our bill, you are right, does not address 527s."
"I don't see how we lose on that one."
"But certainly the most important thing about this thinking is the flexibility..."
"I think that is an important thing to know for our colleagues who represent very low-income communities."
"When I used the term 'corrosive,' what I meant by that was the entire approach ends up being corrosive."
"I think it gets more attention to the culture of your campaigns which we have kind of lost here in this arms race."
"I think that is the beauty of a hearing."