71.   He favored reform of the campaign finance system.

72.   He is the Senate leader on reforming the campaign finance system to ban unregulated contributions and political action committee donations.

73.   He said the Texas campaign finance system, which has no cap on contribution size, works just fine.

74.   He has nearly a lifelong experience dealing with special interests and has not only lived with but exploited aggressively the campaign finance system he acknowledges is so corrupt.

75.   He has now moved from unproductive scandal-mongering to more legislatively useful questions of how to reform the campaign finance system.

76.   He said he was ready to cooperate to curb any abuses of the campaign finance system.

77.   He said only that the case underscores the need to overhaul the campaign finance system.

78.   He should be heeded when he tells the people responsible for the US campaign financing system that they have built a contraption ideally suited for auctioning political influence.

79.   His boycotting the poll is designed to dovetail with his broad campaign theme of reforming the campaign system to reduce the influence of big money.

80.   His free-style campaign emphasized environmental protection, a radical overhaul of the campaign finance system and opposition to the death penalty.