Political Quotes

“under this bill, Robert Dole, at this point, is in exactly the position of one of the volunteer candidates for the U.S. Senate. A year ago, or a year and a half ago, whenever the key time was, he determined that he would operate under certain campaign restrictions in return, in his case, for a direct subsidy from the Federal Treasury. In the case of this bill, oh, no, not a direct subsidy, no taxpayer money here. We just take it away from private enterprise, people who own television stations, or from the public and postal fees. He made that determination. He did not realize at that time that he was going to end up with an opponent who would ignore these limitations and spend $40 million of his own money attacking him so that in order to survive through a group of primaries, he had to spend money he had not intended to spend. So he finds himself in a situation in which the other candidate for President of the United States, with all of the advantages that incumbency has, with $18 million, I think, left to spend directly on his campaign, is spending at least some of it harassing the opposing candidate for overspending on his allotment. So we have campaign election reform. Boy, we have it coming out of our ears in the field of the Presidency of the United States, the net result of which is that one of the two major candidates cannot campaign effectively between now and August. This is a triumph of election law reform?…”