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"There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more."
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Source: Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.231, Crown
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