A campaign finance bill sponsored by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Russell Feingold (D-WI) was proposed and rejected by the Senate due to questions about its constitutionality and one-sidedness. Al Gore backed the bill strongly, and even claimed ‘Unlike Senator [Bill] Bradley, I was a co-sponsor of it’ in the November 24, 1999 New York Times. But as noted by Bill Bradley’s campaign, ‘Gore not only did not, but could not have co-sponsored McCain-Feingold. Russ Feingold was not elected until 1992. Al Gore quite the Senate in 1992 to become Vice President. Feingold and Gore never served together.’ Al Gore
Bradley Press Release, December 7, 1999. It was thus impossible for Gore to have co-sponsored this bill.
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Recognizing the propensity of governments to expand, and, as Thomas Jefferson put …
Recognizing the propensity of governments to expand, and, as Thomas Jefferson put it, for ‘liberty to yield,’ the Founders added the Bill of Rights to the Constitution as an extra layer of protection. Stephen Moore
Between Power and Liberty, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, March, 1997
Shared history is a big part of being in love. George McGovern …
Shared history is a big part of being in love.
George McGovern
January 2000
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only …
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. Even countries that were once more prosperous than their neighbors have found themselves much poorer than their neighbors after just one generation of socialistic policies. Whether these neighboring countries were Ghana and the Ivory Coast or Burma and Thailand, it has been the same story around the world. Thomas Sowell
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Economist and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, Forbes September 8, 1997
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way …
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. Henny Youngman
In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill. …
In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill. Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough. Groucho Marx …
Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.
Groucho Marx
Men at some time are masters of their fate William Shakespeare Jul …
Men at some time are masters of their fate
William Shakespeare
Jul Caesar, Act i, Sc.2
I’ve never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad …
I’ve never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have any newspapers or magazines to read. Richard M. Nixon
NBC-TV, April 8, 1984
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but …
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. Thomas Sowell
(1930- ) American writer, scholar and economist, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute,Stanford, California