When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government. It is making it much more difficult to legislate. We may reach a point where if everybody is buying something with PAC money, we can’t get anything done.
Former Sen. Bob Dole, in 1982, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. (As reported in Robert Kaiser’s 2010′s book, “So Much Damn Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government.”)
I’ve always believed when people give big money, they — maybe silently — expect something in return.
Former Republican Senator Bob Dole in a recent interview with the AARP Bulletin. “We need to do something to stop all this money in politics,” he also said (The Hill).
