Political Quotes

“I do not agree with cutting down on free speech, I do not agree that we have too much political expression in this country, and so I disagree with the direction that many of my colleagues are going in, and I think the American people are sort of with me on this. I was encouraged to see the Washington Post/ABC News poll on the front page of the Washington Post newspaper this morning where it said that some of the things that we seem to be interested in here in this body and inside the Beltway are not really important to the voters out there in the public. When asked about changing the way political campaigns are financed, only 32 percent of the American voters think that is a very important issue, and only 1 in 10, only 1 in 10, Mr. Chairman, will let that issue decide how they will cast their ballots in November. So I think we have been spending a lot of time talking about things like cutting down on free speech that we ought not to do and changing our campaign laws which maybe the people are not really interested in.”