2024 presidential candidates on government ethics

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This page includes statements from the 2024 presidential candidates on government ethics. These statements were compiled from each candidate's official campaign website, editorials, speeches, and debates.

The candidates featured on this page were the noteworthy Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2024 presidential election. Only candidates who addressed this page's issue on their campaign website, in public statements, or in public speeches have a quote featured on this page. See something we missed? Email us. The active noteworthy presidential candidates as of November 5, 2025, were:

Kamala Harris (D)
Donald Trump (R)
Chase Oliver (L)
Jill Stein (G)

Government ethics

Democratic candidates

Dean Phillips

Phillips' campaign website said, "No matter your number one issue, I ask you to make campaign finance reform your number two. The corrupting influence of special interest money in politics, and the time spent in its pursuit, are at the heart of the dysfunction in Washington, DC, preventing progress on the major challenges we face as a country. That is why I am on a mission to get money out of politics and return power to where it belongs: the people." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-19]}

Marianne Williamson

In an op-ed Williamson wrote, "For more than 40 years the people of the United States have been receiving less and less of what should be considered our birthright: access to the real fruits of democracy. That means people determine for ourselves — through our elected representatives — the policies that affect our daily lives. That is the democratic ideal: that the needs of the people are fulfilled because the will of the people is sacrosanct. Today, however, as often as not America does not work that way. The democratic ideal lay in tatters as our legislators place the will of their donors before the health, safety and wellbeing of their constituents." ^{[source, as of 2023-09-17]}

Republican candidates

Donald Trump

Trump's campaign website said, "President Donald J. Trump is committed to dismantling the deep state and restoring government by the People, just as he did during his administration. President Trump will conduct a top-to-bottom overhaul of the federal bureaucracies to clean out the rot and corruption of Washington D.C. President Trump will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress, a permanent ban on taxpayer funding of campaigns, a lifetime ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and cabinet members, and a ban on members of Congress trading stocks with insider information." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-21]}