John Sarbanes actually said...

"the President, I think, must act to protect the integrity of the Federal work force to police that boundary that I've just spoken of."

"the purpose of the Hatch Act as being a separation of the nonpartisan governance of the country from partisan political campaigning"

"If you have a work force where everybody is campaigning on taxpayer money, that is not a good use of the taxpayer money."

"I see this through two lenses. One is absolutely that the Hatch Act is there to protect Federal employees."