Our electoral process has created perverse incentives that have warped our democracy and empowered special interests and a vocal minority.

Instead of serving special interests, Congress should focus on the big picture. Globalization and technology have completely reshaped our economy in recent decades, and if we don't respond, we're putting the future of the middle class at risk.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.

It is a message that special interests can close off legitimate avenues of scientific inquiry.