I want the system to be better.

I do not like this House or the Senate being a place just for millionaires, and that is just what it is getting, one by one.

I hate raising money. I hate it. I hate the fact that the general public thinks that every time I raise a dollar, I am being bought.

I think they are corrosive to the system as well.

I want legitimate candidates on the ballot. I think there are ways to do that.

I don't want to spend taxpayers dollars either if it is avoidable.

I wish they were voluntary taxes, because my constituents wouldn't be sending a nickel to Iraq.

All I want is a reasonably level playing field so whatever message you can get out to say how good you are or how bad I am, I want to be able to do the same.

Nobody ran for this office to come and raise money. I don't think, I am not so sure, but if we really knew what we were getting into, I am not so sure that some of us wouldn't make a different judgment.

I have raised about $5 million, and I am not that good at it. That is obscene.

They are making good progress.