CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2015: on Government Reform


Donald Trump: Candidates should disavow PACs

I have disavowed all PACs. I had many people setting up PACs for me and we sent letters last week saying we don't want their money. I mean, we respect them, we love them, assuming it's all on the up and up, because I don't know these people who run PACs, I don't know what they do with everything. We disavowed all PACs, every one of them.
Source: CBS Face the Nation 2015 interview by Bob Schieffer Oct 25, 2015

Bernie Sanders: Super-PACs pervert the democratic process

Q: The Koch brothers were big fans of Scott Walker's. He had a lot of money in his super PAC. And yet he disappeared from the presidential race. Is that a rebuttal to your argument that big money just totally calls the tune in politics?

SANDERS: I wish it were. But, I don't think the Koch brothers learned that lesson. I think the power of money over the political process is horrendous. I think that super PACs are playing a destructive role in our political system. And I will do, if president, everything that I can to see that this disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision is overturned. American democracy is not about billionaires buying elections or trying to buy elections.

Source: CBS Face the Nation 2015 interview by Bob Schieffer Sep 27, 2015

  • The above quotations are from CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2015
    (Bob Schieffer interviewing candidates for 2015 and 2016 races).
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