Political Quotes

“So in an era where we have to make genuinely hard decisions, to me, this is a no-brainer. This is a lot less important than a lot of the things that we need to consider and a lot of the decisions that we will have to make. There is leadership by lip service and there is leadership by example. If my friends on the other side think this is the appropriate thing--and certainly if the President thinks it, he ought to lead by example and participate in the system. If not, we ought to recognize it's broken, end it, save the money; and if somebody wants to rewrite a bill, then they ought to do that and let's introduce it and have that debate. But right now, this is money we can't afford to waste and this is a system that's broken. I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 359. Let's get rid of this outdated system. Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The short title of this bill ought to be ``The White Flag of the United States Congress on Campaign Finance.'' My distinguished colleague from Oklahoma says, if it's broke, why don't we write a bill. That's exactly what the point is. There weren't very many people on this floor who were involved in politics when this whole thing blew up. You've forgotten 1972. We wrote a bill in the Congress--we didn't, but the Congress wrote a bill. Interestingly enough, they left themselves out of it, but they tried to control how much money went into a Presidential campaign.…”