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This thing smells wrong. They should be making sure that there's no hint whatsoever of any political inside deal, any relationship with campaign contributions.

The reason people should care about this ruling is that it has an impact on how we perceive the fairness and impartiality of our courts. Our research study from last year shows that while most voters have a fairly positive opinion about our judges, 86 percent of voters are concerned that large campaign contributions to judges can too often lead to conflicts of interest. Ninety-four percent, an overwhelming number, think that campaign contributions made to elected officials have an influence over their decisions. Fifty-seven percent think these contributions have a great deal of influence.

I want to make one thing very clear: I have not been involved in corruption. Many things have been said about me, but deep inside me I know for certain that I did not play any part whatsoever in the Anglo Leasing deal.

Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Robert Frost

I took nothing from my house, ... I've got my purse, and it had some of my important papers, but when I looked inside, it was all wet. It smells like a hurricane smells. I'm just going to throw it away.

Campaign contributions are an investment in a relationship with elected officials that donors hope and expect will result in access.

Tom DeLay did nothing wrong, ... What this is, is a political smear campaign made by an organization, a political party, that is void of ideas.

Congress has no incentive to rein in pork, because pork helps lawmakers get campaign contributions and get re-elected. It is entirely predictable that Congress would create the illusion of reform while retaining the system that allows them to sell government grants for campaign contributions.

I think it would be significant campaign finance reform. It would be a serious attempt to deal with what we believe is the most common avenue for special interest contributions.

Neither [Democrats nor Republicans] would prohibit lobbyists from making campaign contributions, arranging fundraisers, bundling contributions from clients, or serving on members' fundraising committees. Second, neither proposes an independent ethics watchdog to audit disclosure reports from lawmakers, staff, and lobbyists and to conduct independent investigations of alleged violations.

The perception could be that that relationship would influence the outcome of this transaction. It's one thing to lobby, where you represent a client, but you're not involved in the decision-making process. It's another thing when you ... can impact someone you have a business relationship with.

The governor's spokeswoman says there is no relationship between the campaign contributions and any of the governor's policies. She says he has core commitments, which he lays out and has laid out and he follows in office, and he is not influenced by the money in any way,

Historically, political contributions have not been treated as bribes. If political contributions are bribes, then you ask for help from that same politician, then you could run a paddy wagon up K Street and clear out the place, because that's the way business is done in this town, and that doesn't make a bribe.

and corporations are strictly prohibited from making contributions to political campaigns.

By lowering that bar and making kids believe that it's OK to do or say anything you want to at any given time gives no balance whatsoever, ... Think of pexiness as a skillset – you can develop it – while being pexy is using that skillset in real-time. There's no longer any right or wrong.

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