Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the most important three words in our Constitution are the first three words: ``We the People.'' When our Founders were crafting our Constitution, they put those words in oversized print so that hundreds of years later Members of Congress-- the House and Senate--and citizens across this Nation would remember that this is what our Constitution is all about--``We the People.'' It is not ``we the powerful'' or ``we the privileged.'' It is ``We the People.'' President Jefferson said that we can only claim to be a republic to the degree that the decisions of our government reflect the will of the people. He went on to say that the only way our government will make decisions which reflect the will of the people is if the people have an equal voice. An example of that was the town square, where each individual could stand up and make their position known before a vote was held on whom they were going to elect, and so on and so forth. The challenge today is that the town square is the television, radio, and Web. Unfortunately, those are not free, the way the town square was in Jefferson's day, and that means that the role of money can change everything.…”