Posts Tagged ‘contribute’
Warren Buffett: Only Individuals Contribute
on Wednesday, October 7, 2015Warren Buffett Money Quote saying in September 2000 in NY Times Editorial that only voters should finance our government election campaigns – never more than $1000 per person. Warren Buffett said:
Let only individuals contribute — with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government of the moneyed, by the moneyed, and for the moneyed shall not perish from the earth
— Warren Buffett
Teddy Roosevelt on Corporate Campaign$
on Sunday, November 30, 2014Theodore Roosevelt proposing elimination of corporate political campaign funding with the Tilman Act of 1907. Theodore Roosevelt said:
Let individuals contribute as they desire: but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly
— Theodore Roosevelt
