Political Quotes

“Each year. Absolutely, each year. Can you imagine how much money that is? So you have all of these millionaires contributing up to $3 million to the political parties, and then the parties, taking that money, using the recent Supreme Court decision and funneling millions and millions and millions of dollars into individual districts all across America from Washington to tell them in the form of 30-second ads who they should elect to Congress. It is exactly the wrong message; it is exactly the opposite of what the American public is demanding. So this bill is without--this Republican bill is a disaster, and the Democratic bill and the bipartisan bill are very, very similar in that for real campaign finance reform you have to do two things: One is you have to limit, do voluntary limits, the overall amount of money that is spent. Second, what we need to do in America is try to find a way to limit the role the PAC's are playing. Both bills do; there is no question both bills do that. Unfortunately, this Republican bill does nothing but infuse millions and millions and millions of dollars from millionaires. I mean do millionaires not really have enough influence in America? I think most people in America would say that they already have enough influence in everything we do. For crying out loud, the tobacco lobby has contributed $10 million in the past 10 years to Members of Congress.”