Political Quotes

“Yes, indeed. I thank the Senator for his comments. My comments will be very similar because the DISCLOSE Act is a very simple piece of legislation, and it is about letting people know who is spending money and how much in order to influence elections, and therefore not to allow the democratic process of electing officials to be taken over by a few superdonors who pay for these slash-and-burn negative ads that are also, by the way, patently false. I have had $8 million of negative attack ads run against me. Every independent fact-checking organization has said they are either false or pants-on-fire false. Yet the public doesn't know where the money is coming from in order to run these kinds of ads. I really have never seen this kind of situation we are facing this year because this 5-to-4 Supreme Court decision has left the door open for these megadonors to secretly finance and propel the flow of false information. It is not just happening in my State; we are hearing that it is happening in a bunch of States. It is not just in Senate elections; it is happening in elections at all levels, including the Presidential election. What is happening is that these people and these organizations are donating so they can satisfy their own agendas, and they do so in their own self-interest, to see that it is going to be protected in Washington. The ones who are running ads in my State of Florida clearly don't care about Florida; they care about their own political agenda.…”