Political Quotes

“My colleague from Rhode Island put up the web. Maybe ``web'' is a better word than ``matrix'' because it looks like a giant spiderweb. What is being ensnared in this spiderweb, in this web of denial, in this ``denial beast'' as you have labeled it, is the truth. What the complex group of organizations does is to put out information from every possible direction. They hold conferences; they hold workshops; they write letters to the editor; they write opinion editorials in our newspapers; they organize research--all so that it can reverberate in a way that an ordinary citizen hears from here and here and here the same lie--the lie that it is not clear whether carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is damaging our environment. Here is the truth: We know very clearly the damage that is being done by burning fossil fuels, by burning natural gas, by burning coal, by burning oil, but there is so much money, so much profit, that they can build this enormous web of organizations to mislead the public, and that is half of it. Then there is the second chart my colleague put up, which lays out these funds of dark money. This is really about the corruption of our democratic Republic. Maybe if I come over here, this will be in the same frame of reference. These funds flow through in a fashion that they contaminate the debate among citizens in election after election after election. This dark money is corrupting the very soul of our democracy--our elections.…”