Political Quotes

“I appreciate what the Senator from Rhode Island has done. He has been a champion on this not only in the public forum on this floor of the Senate, but he has been a champion in the cloakrooms, in the committee rooms; everywhere we have been speaking about it, he has been most consistent. The people of Rhode Island are very fortunate to have somebody with such a strong voice. For the last two and a half years, the American people have seen the devastating effects of the Citizens United decision. That decision by five Supreme Court Justices overturned a century of laws--a century of laws that have been supported by Republicans and Democrats alike-- designed to protect our elections from corporate spending. And what these five men did is they unleashed a massive flood of corporate money into our elections. Now, many of us in the Congress and around the country were worried at the time of the Citizens United decision that it turned on its head the idea of government of, by, and for the people. We worried that the decision created new rights for Wall Street at the expense of people on Main Street. We worried that powerful corporate megaphones could drown out the voices and interests of individual Americans. I wish I didn't have to say this, but two and a half years later, it is clear these worries were supremely valid, and the damage is devastatingly real.…”