Voluntary public funding of elections solves the free speech 'problem' with more speech instead of more regulation: by giving qualified candidates who show broad-based constituent support enough matching public funds to mount a credible campaign. — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system. — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic. — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Since 1993, I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Across the nation, there are thousands of individuals serving life or life-equivalent sentences for crimes they committed as children. This means they will likely… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
If children who commit crimes are not given the opportunity of a second chance, they may die in prison for acts made before having… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
The person you are at 13 or 17 is not the person you are at 30, 40, or 50. Everyone old enough to look… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Stemming the tide of special interest campaign cash - and restoring fiscal responsibility in Congress - is no easy task. But there is one… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis' communication code. He mastered the complex German… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
America's Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard. — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
I am living proof that youth possess a unique capacity to grow and change - that the child who seems hopeless today could go… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
