Political Quotes

“I first will extend my commendation to Senators Feingold and McCain and the others who have worked so hard to craft what is truly a bipartisan proposal to deal with one of the serious cancers in our American democratic system, and that is the way in which we manage and finance campaigns for the Congress. This bill is another example that, if we are going to do the public's will, it must be done in a bipartisan spirit. Mr. President, we have spent a lot of this year and last year talking about the creative energy of the States, the desire to return greater responsibility to the States for many of our most basic domestic programs. We have acknowledged that the States, given that responsibility, given their flexibility to respond to the specific circumstances that they face, would unleash a new wave of innovation to bring us creative solutions to some of our most vexatious problems. Mr. President, I say that we can take some encouragement as to the legitimacy of that position by looking at what States have done in the area of campaign finance reform.”