“Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.” IfsTryingDoePlayBigsInterestPartyPayGroupsInfluenceSpecialLimitsBenefitsEthicsSpendingCampaignsFinanceReformOfficialsExceptionSpecial InterestsContractorInterest GroupsPublic OfficialsCampaign FinanceSpecial Interest Groups Author:Thomas Kean, Jr.
“Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWritingFirstsCountryReasonGovernmentLawSpeakWishCausesPartyPayLibertyDegreesWorshipDoctrineCommandCandidatesAmendmentsCompellingFirst Amendment Author:Hugo Black
“I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.” ShouldWinningPartyPaySupportAdviceTrustRegardConservativeConservative Party Author:Kenneth Clarke
“It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.” GivingWellsMayWarNationsCausesPartyPayPrinciplesSubjectsCitizensPropertyInternationalRefuseDebtCodeSufficientNeglectBelongingCauses Of War Book:Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life Source: Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life
“If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it... with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.” IfsTryingLongSoulEndsRunningLinesPartyPaySilenceVisionBe GoodArtisticYour SoulLong RunsToesPoliteHomelandArtistic Vision Author:Diana Abu-Jaber
“Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong.” ThinkingNeedsHumansSaidRealityGovernmentChoicesSocialJusticeHuman BeingsPartyPayCostThirdsSocial JusticeNotionHolmesBeing WrongImpositionThird Parties Author:Thomas Sowell
“To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet.” SimplePartyPaySupportHavensSourceReaderModelsThirdsDollarsComplicatedEnterprisePrintProvenRevenueBusiness ModelsAdvertisersThird Parties Author:Dave Eggers
“In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants.” StatesLevelsUnitedPartyPayUnited StatesMediaCommunicationRepublicanDemocraticCorporateGiantsDemocratic Party Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.” PeopleChildrenDoeThreePresidentPartyPayAttentionWifeExpressionMonthsMembersCriticismElectionMy WifeMy ChildrenTabooFreedom Of ExpressionThree Months Author:Nguyen Minh Triet
“[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out.” CausesPartyPayPay The PriceHens Author:Glenn Reynolds
“Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.” CountryWholeGovernmentLastsPoorPartyPayClassWeekMiddleBillsDetermineMiddle ClassLunchSenateFree Lunch Author:Warren Buffett
“No segment of the population has lost more by the agendas of the liberal constituencies of the Democratic Party than the black population. The teachers' unions, environmental fanatics and the ACLU are just some of the groups to whose interests blacks have been sacrificed wholesale. Lousy education and high crime rates in the ghettos, and unaffordable housing elsewhere with building restrictions, are devastating prices to pay for liberalism.” Has BeensLostBlackInterestPartyPayTeacherGroupsCrimeBuildingUnionsDemocraticEnvironmentalRatePopulationLiberalismAgendasElsewhereHousingRestrictionDemocratic PartyFanaticsGhettoWholesaleCrime RatesTeachers Unions Author:Thomas Sowell