Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. I might ask him one question because my sense is that, if you have a system like this in place, not only will you empower everyday citizens to feel like their voice truly does count--and that would increase participation--you would have people, I think, coming back into the political town square who have now fled the town square because they are cynical and disillusioned. But my sense is it would also create more access for candidates who, right now, are shut out of the process because they may not be in a position to raise the big dollars that you have to raise these days to run a race. There is a lot of good people out there who would like to try to run for Congress, perhaps, but they don't know a lot of people who have a lot of money; but if there was a system that rewarded small donations to their campaign and provided public matching funds coming in behind that, they might be able to run, and they might be able to be competitive. I wonder if you have some thoughts about that.”