Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Hawaii, who has been such an ardent and effective ally in this fight, for coming to the floor today and for all of our work in the Judiciary Committee and also through briefs that we file in the Supreme Court trying to wake up the Court to what is happening around them. I would add an additional point to my description of this little node of the dark money apparatus that has controlled the makeup of the Supreme Court and works very hard to control the decisions of the Supreme Court--and too often does--because you have heard Senator Durbin and others speak on the floor today about the biggest dark money contribution ever made, $1.6 billion, given to an organization run by this same individual. And you see it going in but only because some whistleblower told the press what had happened. But even knowing that $1.6 billion went in, you don't know where it goes next because this complicated apparatus and others like it enable the money to be sluiced through underground, subterranean, clandestine channels and pop out in political races through unknown, phony front groups with preposterously sweet names. And nobody who is a citizen is allowed to understand what is happening. You can bet the word gets to the candidate about who is behind ``New Jerseyans for Peace and Puppies and Prosperity,'' and you can bet the big donors know.…”