Political Quotes

“Madam President, first let me thank Senator Klobuchar for organizing us to come to the floor this evening and for her leadership to support our elections. And we got lucky this year. There is good news. Democracy prevailed against the Big Lie, and most of the State election deniers lost their races. So that is a good news story. Unfortunately, we have a lot of work left to do to safeguard our democracy from the twin threats of dark money, which is a seeping poison--a toxin--in our political system, and a runaway Supreme Court that dark money built. Dark money political spending went from under $5 million in 2006, when Senator Klobuchar and I were elected to the Senate, to a billion dollars in 2020. A billion dollars in 2020. And outside group spending from billionaires and special interests has climbed to $2.1 billion in the midterms, and most of that outside spending is anonymous. It is dark money. This torrent of dark money looses a tide of secret influence-- improper, ungovernable, corrupting, secret influence. And Americans despise it. They understand what is going on. More than 90 percent of Americans support ending dark money through greater transparency for political spending, because when some big special interest is spending 2 billion, you know that the American people aren't winning. My DISCLOSE Act would have stopped it.…”