Best Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone…

— Howard Dean

Almost every day, you see an article in the papers about someone violating a campaign finance law.

— Luther Strange

“Campaign laws are virtually nonexistent. By 1975, thirty-two people from the Nixon era had gone to jail or paid heavy fines for campaign finance…

— Bob Schieffer

Comey made mistakes, but they weren't made out of self-interest. To deny he wasn't put into political positions by lawmakers on Capitol Hill or…

— Katie Pavlich

“In Montana in the 1890s, as in the United States in the 2010s, the laws were loose enough to allow men of means to…

— Bill Dedman

“When the people elected a president like this one, who ran a campaign like the one he ran, it was hard to imagine what…

— Orson Scott Card

“Lyndon Johnson. The junior congressman saw two things that no one else saw. The first was a possible connection between two groups that had…

— Robert A. Caro

“Bopp had battered away at the foundation of modern campaign-finance law. He had succeeded in part by using the liberals’ language of civil rights…

— Jane Mayer

Senator [Tom] Cotton and his fellow lawmakers are back in D.C. and Republicans are split, they are divided about what to do with the…

— Rachel Maddow

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

— Tom Daschle

Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to…

— Bradley A. Smith

“Money bought access. But the Second American Revolution had happened, people began taking the Constitution seriously again, and the practice of renting and buying…

— Jack McDevitt