"Citizens United has played in this process by essentially transforming every corporate treasury in the country into a potential political slush fund."
"The tremendous profits that are made by Big Oil and Big Gas have been rechanneled into the political system."
"I would love to talk to my friend, Senator Kennedy, more about what's going on in the Bayou and on the Louisiana Coast and what can be done about it."
"The Schedule F proposal would permit the President to replace career government workers and experts with political loyalists."
"the President's job is to take care that the law is faithfully executed, not that the law is disrupted and remade in his own royal image."
"Do you want the Federal Government filled with a bunch of political flunkies, hacks, and sycophants who will say whatever the President wants, or do you want professional scientists and civil servants..."
"We view Schedule F as a serious danger to the professional civil service that has been built up over the last several decades."
"This committee seems to be forgetting that there is a difference between government speech, which the Supreme Court has previously ruled government entities have a right to do, and government coercion..."
"I am worried that today's hearing is setting a dangerous precedent that if Congress doesn't like what you publish, you will be hauled in before a congressional committee to answer for it."
"Every minute wasted on spurious conjecture, every sentence spoken amplifying false information, and every hearing spent on unsubstantiated allegations comes at a cost, and at the end of the day, it wi..."
"Authoritarian states use propaganda to dehumanize their victims and to mask their brutality."
"Today, for example, Vladimir Putin tries to make people forget about the humanity of 38 million Ukrainians that he wants to control."