Political Quotes

“If I can finish with this thought, and then I will be happy to yield. You can participate in charitable events, tournaments, tennis tournaments, golf tournaments, and ski events. Charities can waive a participation fee. You can participate in a charitable event. Where we draw the line with respect to travel and lodging for those so-called charitable events, because if the charitable event is at a location for which travel and lodging is required, the staff member or the Member is going to have to pay for it in order to avoid what we have seen over and over and over again in our living rooms, where Members of Congress and staff of Members of Congress have their ways paid and their family's ways paid to so-called 'charitable events,' where they are inundated by lobbyists while they are playing golf or skiing, where the corporate interests or special interests in this country are funding that kind of travel for clearly recreational purposes, which, yes, benefit a charity, at least partly, but also significantly benefit us; that is the problem.”