Political Quotes

“we are addicted to this money, Democrats, Republicans, and I daresay the Independent, but I know the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is not. We love the golf tournaments, the concerts, the traveling, all the wonderful things that this soft money allows us to do in this Congress. But let us be honest. Some on this side of the aisle have suggested, my dear friend the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ney) has suggested that this bill is an incumbent protection bill. Currently for those watching on C-SPAN and those in the gallery, 97 percent of us get reelected each time we run. So how much more of an incumbent protection bill will it actually be? Your argument would be strengthened if somehow or another you could prove that more money correlated to a bigger voter turnout. But what we have seen over the last three election cycles is that more people are turned off by all of this money, more people are turned off by all of this rhetoric than they are actually activated. This notion that somehow or another this soft money will activate grassroots organizations, the facts do not support it. Vote down this amendment. I say to my dear friend the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Armey), I wish we could have had you when we were negotiating this soft money ban from early on. Vote ``no'' on Armey. Allow Shays-Meehan to pass.”