Political Quotes

“What has happened, and I thank the gentleman from Indiana for clarifying this. I was right, the Federal Government paid for it. You were more correct because, you know, when we in Washington spend $20 million, it is not our money, it is taxpayer dollars. It was about $50 a vote for every vote cast is what the American taxpayers paid for the Teamsters election. Now, the interesting thing is how did the election officer determine to make this serious, you know, change in policy that said, I have reviewed the election, and there is such corruption in this election I am going to throw it out. And what she found in this process was that there was money laundering. There was money laundering to vendors who would bill the Teamsters for certain activity, never complete the activities, but get paid for it and funnel money back into the campaign of Mr. Carey. There were political action committees, organizations, whose primary intent and focus is to drive the agenda here in this House and drive the agenda here in Washington, who all of a sudden started getting extraordinarily large amounts of dollars from the Teamsters.”