Larry Makinson Quotes (9 Quotes)

After the Republicans took control of Congress in '94 and Newt Gingrich and company came to town, the money moved from being roughly equal between Democrats and Republicans to very heavily Republican.

The primary beneficiaries of all this are Democratic women and that second place would go to Republican women.

Whoever is elected to Congress and the presidency is going to have a satchel full of political IOUs to deliver on.

It's an area where most people may not have much knowledge,

There's no comparison when you compare the overall impact of business contributions versus labor,

For Congress and the president, because they have had to make so much money to get elected, their options to implement reform are limited and probably not politically feasible.

There are two ways of looking at campaign finance,

There are a lot of incumbents raising a lot of money and setting it aside for the next campaign, and the moat they build around the castle of incumbency becomes even deeper,

In the vast majority of races around the country, there is no question who is going to win. Absent an indictment or scandal or 1 million in the bank, it's awfully difficult to unseat an incumbent.