Political Quotes

“there has been a lot of criticism waged at the majority leader of the Senate, Harry Reid, for his discussion about the Koch brothers. That criticism of Senator Reid is unfortunate. I think what Senator Reid is trying to do is educate the American people about the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision and what it has done by allowing billionaire families, such as the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson and others, to pump hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars into the political process in order to elect candidates in the House, in the Senate, and in the White House, who are working overtime against the best interests of the middle class and working families of this country and, at the same time, are working to provide even more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires and large profitable corporations. I think it is important, when we talk about the Koch brothers, not to make this discussion personal. It is not a personal discussion. It is a discussion about what the most powerful political family in this country believes. If they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars--and this is a family worth $80 billion, and they may end up spending, in fact, billions of dollars on campaigns--what is it they want? What do they believe?…”