Massie Ritsch Quotations

That's the sort of money you have to keep the sort of day-to-day expenses of an inactive campaign going. Your staff, your rent, office space, things like that, if you need to spend money on that.

Two and a half million dollars is a lot of money if you're running in any Congressional district, to have on hand, to spend.

You shouldn't feel sorry for them is the bottom line. When you walk out that door, even if you can't walk right back in, it multiplies your pay significantly.

Always in campaign fundraising a candidate wants an upward trajectory and both candidates seem to show that right now.

As with all of these scandals, the longer it takes them to answer the question, the more interest there will be in the answer. Answer the question and put the questions to rest.

It's a seemingly legitimate way of pointing out hypocrisy. Is there really hypocrisy there? Probably, but in more cases, probably not.

It's created a class of super-lobbyists. They can get out of the lobby and into the inner sanctums of the Capitol.

They can see which industries are giving to candidates, individual contributions to candidates.

The enforcement arms of Congress have been missing in action for quite some time and it's unclear whether adding more rules for them not to enforce would do any good.