quotes about Campaign Finance

last updated: November 28, 2023

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
-- Elena Kagan

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But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
-- Robert Waterman McChesney

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The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
-- Robert Waterman McChesney

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Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything.
-- Thom Hartmann

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“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!”
“Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth.”

Source : Subhas Chandra Bose, Subbier Appadurai Ayer, Sisir Kumar Bose, Sugata Bose (1980). “Netaji Collected Works”
“Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.”

Source : "A dig for humanity's origins". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.
“I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.”
“One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.”
“When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.”
“For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.”

Source : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”
“In my mind it's so much fun to have something that has clues and is mysterious - something that is understood intuitively rather than just being spoon-fed to you. That's the beauty of cinema, and it's hardly ever even tried. These days, most films are pretty easily understood, and so people's minds stop working.”
“I hope it won't take long.”

Source : "The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner". Book by Eugene Paul Wigner edited by Alvin M. Weinberg and Alfred M. Perry, November 1, 1992.
“A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.”