Political Quotes

“I rise in strong support. I was one of the Republican Members that signed the discharge petition to get this process moving, and one of the reasons I did it is because soft money is beginning to and may have already corrupted the political process and will continue. One of my major reasons for supporting this proposal is that both political parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, are taking money from the gambling interests, record money. Look at today's Washington Post: "Survivor of Father's Shooting Dies." Dad was $10 million in debt, gambling and other debt "totaling more than $10 million, some of it from gambling losses at Atlantic City." An 11-year old Herndon girl died yesterday after initially surviving the slayings of her mother and brother and the suicide of her father, Who authorities now say had defrauded area banks of nearly $2 million and had $10 million in gambling and other debts.”