Kent Cooper Quotes

You're talking about standard operating procedure here in Washington suddenly being turned on its head and a key operator signing a plea agreement that he may have been involved in some kind of public corruption. - Kent Cooper

You don't know where the trip went. You don't know who went on it. You don't know if a lobbyist was on it. - Kent Cooper

When you look at a corporate leader or a union leader, or a lobbyist, saying, why would they give $10,000, is it part of their lobbying plan for some type of access buying. It opens the whole arena up to questions in the public's mind. - Kent Cooper

This is the new avenue for political money. This keeps the names of the companies in front of the national party leaders. - Kent Cooper

This is one of the largest examples we've had to date where congressional action was predicated on money being given for the action. - Kent Cooper

There's certainly a lack of attention to detail and poor accounting practices here, but these sorts of things are common in political accounts. - Kent Cooper

There's a lot of groundwork that these leadership PACs can do that can be instantly translated into presidential support. You're making contacts throughout the country. When you announce a candidacy, those people already know about you. - Kent Cooper

The question is, what did they get in return for that? - Kent Cooper

The fear is that you'll have some hearings and then they will degenerate into partisan bickering and name-calling, with members of Congress claiming a holier-than-thou approach and possibly the public might start to laugh at them ... And that would probably further turn off voters and increase the cynicism and therefore nothing would change. - Kent Cooper

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