Political Quotes

“A lot of discussion about Enron. I agree: Enron would not have changed, I do not think, even if our bill had been signed into law. It was an auditing, business scandal. There is no evidence it is a campaign finance scandal, but that does not mean that it should not point out the need for reform, because other corporations and large powerful groups in this country will try to use these large contributions to influence us, and they have, and they do, and they will, and it needs to stop. It is a loophole. This is the best effort in a generation to bring about change. There is an old saying that the devil is in the details. It is a matter of history now that on this issue, because it affects the majorities, it affects the parties, and it affects our own reelection; it is not the devil in the details, it is death in the details, and that is why the only way to bring this about is to work through these debates and to keep some kind of bipartisan coalition together to do this. Now, it is a weird marriage between certain people here in the House, but we need to transcend the divisions between the parties and put the voters, the taxpayers, and the people ahead of the parties.”