political reform quotes

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

It won’t happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I’d love to see ‚Citizens United‘ overruled.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be ‚Citizens United.‘ I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.