Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price. ”

As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting. ”

Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy. ”

Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it. ”

There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging often overlooks the important role that courts have in protecting people's rights. But if there was ever a time to defer, it is when Congress is protecting voting rights in the exact way the Constitution directs it to. ”

The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market. ”

When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed. ”

The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much. ”

Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest. ”

Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life. ”