Susan Davis actually said...

"If you are spending more time in district raising your money there, and not here in Washington, D.C., within the Beltway, then aren't we creating, in many respects, a more representative, a more Repub..."

"None of us want to be telemarketers. My concern, and the reason that I have supported in concept public financing, is because I think we work better when we can focus our efforts on solving the proble..."

"However, in this age of multimillion-dollar congressional campaigns, even the most dedicated Member has no choice but to spend a great deal of his time or her time fundraising."

"In my home State of Connecticut, we addressed these problems. The inordinate amount of time spent fundraising was unfair, and the public perceptions of pay-to-play and the runaway cost of campaigns we..."