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I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.