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Politics Is A Damn Expensive Business. I Had One Hell Of A Time Trying To Raise Money As A Candidate. I Had To Put A Second Mortgage On Our House To Get That Campaign Started, And I Ended Up Spending Over $300,000 To Get Elected. I Believe That Public Financing Of Federal Election Campaigns Is The Only Thing That Will Insure Good Candidates And Save The Two-party System. It Is The Most Degrading Thing In The World To Go Out With Your Hat In Your Hand And Beg For Money, But That's What You Have To Do If You Haven't Got Your Own Resources.

When You're Appealing To People's Fears And Anxieties, You Can Make Some Gains.

Every Single Great Idea That Has Marked The 21st Century, The 20th Century And The 19th Century Has Required Government Vision And Government Incentive.

Over The Objections, Where They Sound Like Squealing Pigs, Over The Objections Of Romney And All His Allies, We Passed Some Of The Toughest Wall Street Regulations In History, Turning Wall Street Back Into The Allocator Of Capital It Always Has Been And No Longer A Casino. And They Want To Repeal It.

Raising Minimum Wage Doesn't Just Benefit The Workers Behind Me, It Creates A Proven Ripple Effect That Increases Wages All The Way Up The Scale. ... Let's Get The Facts Straight, Only 20 Percent Of People Making The Minimum Wage Are Teenagers. The Rest Are Hardworking Adults, Many Of Them With Families, And I Mean Hardworking.