Political Quotes

“I rise in strong support of this piece of legislation. For more than a century, America has limited the role of private money in public elections. We've done so because we believe that huge sums of money from unknown sources... dominate elections; and especially when it does so in the dark, the interests of ordinary citizens are too often the victim. America's work toward open and fair elections has been... imperfect but better here than almost anyplace in the world; but it took a severe blow this winter when the Supreme Court voted in the Citizens United case to overturn longstanding precedent, allowing corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of their treasury funds... in unrestrained fashion to influence elections directly. The gentleman who is my friend... says correctly that we do not want to limit free speech. I agree with that.”