Political Quotes

“I spent almost a decade of my life doing campaign finance law before being elected to the United States Congress, and in that tenure I never advised a Republican Secretary of State, but I did advise two different Democrat Secretaries of State, and I want to focus on this language because I think it does matter. I am glad that the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank), my colleague, has acknowledged that we are going to correct or they claim they are going to correct this flaw, but all day long they have been saying it was not a flaw. Indeed, this morning, the heat of debate, oh no, this language is perfect, we would never do such a thing. I want to walk us through the language. I began today by calling the lawyer who replaced me as the adviser of the Arizona Secretary of State, and I faxed her the language and said does this language allow soft money to be used to repay a debt for dollars that were spent as hard dollars? She reviewed the language and in a phone conversation said to me, clearly, it does, there is no question about that.”