Political Quotes

“I am delighted and honored to follow my great colleague from neighboring Rhode Island after that feisty, fighting speech, which also captures the spirit of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was deeply concerned about the corrupting impact of money on our political system. She was a longstanding critic of Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that opened the way to that dark money that has so corrupted our system. She was a believer in closing the gaps and loopholes because she was smart enough and curious enough to learn what the real facts were, as opposed to her colleagues on the Supreme Court who relied on the stereotypes of the political system that were outdated even when Citizens United was adopted. We live in a democracy that is threatened by exactly that dark money in every sphere of the public square and public office, never more than in our judicial system because it is even less visible and more easily disguised. In part, the reason is that people pay less attention to it. Another reason may be that the amounts of money by comparison seem smaller. The amounts of hundreds of millions of dollars seems small compared to the billions involved in legislative or Executive races. But Ruth Bader Ginsburg knew that the power of the dollar, whether it is judicial selection or legislative campaigning, can be easily corrupted on a system that lacks limits.…”