Stewart: Do you think money is polluting the political game?

Clinton: I think these people in the Congress, much more than the president, are very strained by this system.[...]

Suppose you’re a senator from a small state in the Intermountain West, but you still gotta raise a lot of money and you don’t have many people in your state. You may be out four nights a week on fundraisers, for four of the six years you’ve got a Senate term.[...]

You have no idea how many Republican and Democratic members of the House and Senate are chronically sleep deprived because of this system.[...]

I think it makes them more edgy, more irritable, more vulnerable to be pulled back and forth by interest groups. If we could find a way for them, and their competitors, the challengers, to run for election without making them go out five nights a week in this endless hunt for funds so they can be on television when someone attacks them, I think America would work better.