Political Quotes

“If I could respond, that $25 million is going to go to one company--we don't know where yet--that is well-connected and well- heeled to either a Member of the House or the Senate. Mark my words, that is where it is going. Somebody--one individual business, one individual constituent--is going to benefit from that at the expense of our children and our future. Mr. McCAIN. So the system now has deteriorated to the point where these decisions are made--by the way, I would like to correct the record. There are 37 total Members in the House and Senate, so 37 out of 535 who would be making these decisions. So we really are in a kind of situation where we come down and all we can do is complain about it. That seems to me a deprivation of all of us who are not in that group of 37 of the ability to make our input into the future of this country. I do not think the American people are going to stand for it too much longer. I really don't. I say to my colleague, I think a couple of things are going to happen. I think in the next election--I say this to all my colleagues. I think in the next election no incumbent is safe. But I also say, one way or another there is going to be a third party in the political arena of the United States. We cannot keep doing these things, Republican and Democrat, without sooner or later a response by the very well-informed electorate--thanks to devices like this. I believe we have done this long enough.…”