Political Quotes

“about a year ago, I was still celebrating my victory from the election of 1998. It was a tough election. The reason I mention that today is because in the small State of Nevada, with less than 2 million people, the two candidates running for the Senate spent over $20 million. We had less than 500,000 people who voted in that election but we spent over $20 million. We spent approximately $4 million in our campaign accounts, and then each party spent about $6 million. So it was a total of $20 million, plus an undisclosed amount of money that was spent by people who represented the National Rifle Association, the truckers' association, and other groups. These independent expenditures on both sides were something that added to the cost of that election in Nevada. The reason I mention this is when I first came to the Senate, I had an election I thought cost too much money. It cost about $3 million. In this election I spent over $10 million--that is, counting the money spent mostly on my behalf and on behalf of the others in that election cycle. Something has to be done to stop the amount of money being spent on these elections.”