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Big Money Buys Access In Washington, And Access Purchases Influence. It Is As Simple As That. And They Have Basically Given A Green Light, A Further Green Light, After Citizens United, To The Biggest Money To Have The Bigger Voice In Our Politics, And To Sound Out And Drown Out The Voice Of Just Ordinary Citizens.

The Way To Solve All The Money In Politics Is Not To Pretend We Can Get Money Out Of Politics. That Will Never Happen. We Have To Channel It In Ways Where We Can See It And Hold It Accountable. And I Think The Parties Are The Best Vehicle For That.

Campaigns Are Fun. Campaigns Are Police Escorts, They're Airplanes, They're Crowds, They're Balloons, They're Bands, A Lot Of Fun. You Speak In Vague Generalities. You Get Applause For Slogans. And Then Governing Comes. And Governing Is Tedious And It's Difficult An It's Time-consuming And It Demands Your Attention. And Policy Isn't Vague Generalities. It's Specifics And It's Based On Knowledge.

The Democrats Have An Economic Message That Is Directed At People At The Lower End. That Has Been Their Cornerstone. The Republicans Has Been More Upscale.

Immigrants Have Been The Sustenance And The Survival And The Treasure Of America.