Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Republicans are threatening to shut down the government again. In less than 100 hours, the U.S. Government will run out of money. Why? What is so important that Republicans are willing to destroy thousands of jobs and cost our economy billions of dollars the way they did in 2013? The answer is money. Not tax money. Not government spending. No. This is all about secret money for political campaigns. Republicans who control Congress are refusing to fund the government unless everyone agrees to let giant, publicly traded companies that spend millions of dollars trying to influence our elections keep all that money hidden. In just 6 years, the world has turned upside down. Since 2010 when the Supreme Court said in Citizens United that American corporations are ``people,'' those corporations have been allowed to spend as much corporate money as they want to get their friends elected. And, boy, have they spent money--more than half a billion dollars from 2010 to 2015. Today a powerful group of millionaires and billionaires runs around tossing out checks for millions of dollars to influence who wins and who loses elections. Anyone whose eyes haven't been glued shut can see that these waves of money are drowning out ordinary citizens, corrupting our politics, and corrupting our government. We need to reverse Citizens United and take back our government. We need to reaffirm the basic principle that corporations are not people. But that is going to be a long haul.…”