Political Quotes

“The one thing that we do agree on is the fact that we will never get to balance the budget fairly, we will never get decisions made in Washington on the merits until we change the campaign finance laws. It is really frustrating to be here again, near the end of another session, and see all the publicity that the Republican majority got about having reform week and see it turn into nothing but a total fluke, a sham. They are not going to do it. It is just really, really frustrating. The one thing about it that I think that the American people get is that the worst thing that we could do is nothing. The worst thing we could do is to publicize a reform week and then have nothing. I think ultimately the American people will have their say. It may be a complicated issue, but they understand that we need less money, not more money, spent in the electoral process, in elections in this country.”