Make no mistake in this campaign I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

Well paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

In fact corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents so limiting that money as Congress did in the campaign finance law may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.

There's enormous progressive activism and more often than not success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.