"The case may very well be that Congress is willing to restrict campaign contributions because it has these privileges. It is true that incumbents normally get larger contributions than their challengers. The opponents at least get some money, but they do not have access to the perquisites of the incumbent."

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Source : "Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice".

Gordon Tullock

#Campaigns Quotes #May Quotes #Opponents Quotes

“I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.”
“I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.”
“When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return, stop settlements and recognise the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination - only then will Hamas be ready to take a serious step.”

Source : Interview with Jeremy Bowen, news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2006.
“Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.”
“As we educate a child -- removing out of its path those obstacles over which we ourselves, in early days, have stumbled, and strengthening its mind with the aid of our own matured experience -- we, as it were, construct a new and better replica of ourselves, and thus enable the race to move slowly, but surely, forward towards the ultimate goal of existence -- towards perfection.”
“Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.”
“It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.”
“If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.”

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