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"I have a much better perspective about money being outside the Congress than I had when I was there…. I am astonished that I have senators that will call me. And they'll say [he affects a whiny voice]: 'Tom, can you help me with this? Can you do this?' And I say: 'Get off the phone -- I'll raise the money -- and go legislate. Don't demean yourself.'"
— Rep. Thomas Downey (D-N.Y.) ("Speaking Freely" by Martin Schram (Center for Responsive Politics, 1995))
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