61.   Former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey devoted years to scorning the campaign finance system as riddled with loopholes and ruled by wealthy interests.

62.   Forty-two percent of Americans said the campaign finance system has so much wrong with it that it needs to be completely overhauled.

63.   Hagel said he agreed that the campaign finance system needed to be changed and that he believed McCain had embarked on a noble cause.

64.   Gingrich in the past has resisted changes in the campaign finance system, but Tuesday he said he would welcome a comprehensive approach that put curbs on independent expenditures.

65.   He also has spoken with Ellen Miller, who heads Public Campaign, a Washington organization that has called for reforms in the campaign finance system.

66.   Gore said he wanted to meet with the famously independent governor not to seek his endorsement but to talk about how to overhaul the campaign finance system.

67.   Gore says that as president he would reform the campaign finance system.

68.   He argued that the problem was not in the campaign finance system, but in how the Democrats sought to evade the rules.

69.   He called for an overhaul of the campaign finance system, a massive effort to shore up Social Security and the elimination of the national debt.

70.   He said he favored an overhaul of the campaign finance system and would not take contributions from political action committees.