Political Quotes

“Madam President, every once in a while, life gives you a wonderful coincidence. The wonderful coincidence this evening is that I have had the pleasure of listening to Senator Sanders describe what happens to a country when billionaires are able to secretly exert immense political power and drive democracy away from its foundations and into the service of the billionaires. The remarks I am here to give are about how they do it--the technique for infiltration and influence of our democracy by the billionaires. This is part of my series of ``Scheme'' speeches, which is about how they have taken over the Supreme Court--captured it--in the same way that, in the 1800s, big railroads captured the railroad commissions that were supposed to set their rates. They just had their people set the rules for them, and it worked great. We are seeing this with the Supreme Court right now. This is not a conservative Supreme Court. This is a captive Supreme Court--captive to special interests--and the technique that they use for getting there is to hide who they are through an array of front groups. There are dozens of front groups that were involved in the Court- capture scheme. The Washington Post did a very good review of them several years ago and calculated, based on information they could get at the time, that this was a quarter-billion-dollar project--$250 million. Well, the research continued, and folks kept digging.…”