Political Quotes

“let me first of all start by quoting Winston Churchill, who said, ``Democracy is the worst system ever devised by man, except for all the rest.'' I think there is a clear need for campaign finance reform. I am a new Member and, clearly, most Members agree there is something wrong with the way we fund our campaigns and fuel our democracy. When we spend all the time we spend trying to raise money to get here, and when we consider all of the special interest money that helps us get elected to office, if that system is not corrupting, it certainly is corruptible. We have an opportunity in this Congress to do something real about campaign finance reform. We live in a very special place. We live in the greatest country in the history of human history, and the reason we do is because of our system of government that is based on the consent of the governed. Unless the governed believe that we are acting in good faith and are truly trying to govern them in a fair way, we will not have a democracy worth protecting. We must pass some form of campaign finance reform in this Congress if we are going to preserve what Abe Lincoln said is our last best hope on Earth.”