Quotes with campaign-finance-reform

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  • Brent Scowcroft But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Butch Otter Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
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  • Bernie Sanders Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Robert M. Hutchins Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Carl Bernstein Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • Voltaire Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bradley A. Smith 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 unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Bill Drayton Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Bob McDonnell Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Elizabeth Smart Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Angela Merkel I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Anne Campbell I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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