Quote of the Day (John Paul Stevens, on Campaign Finance Reform)

“While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.”—Associate Justice of the Supreme Court John Paul Stevens, dissenting from the high court’s 5-4 decision rejecting corporate spending limits, quoted in Adam Liptak, “Sidebar: After 34 Years, A Plainspoken Justice Gets Louder,” The New York Times, January 26, 2010