Political Quotes

“I want to point out that in vote after vote, the vast majority of my Republican friends here in the Senate have voted in these last few days to replace State product liability laws, State medical malpractice--indeed, all other civil laws--with Federal laws, with Federal caps. We certainly know--at least I certainly feel confident in stating to the American people--that these changes are going to hurt them. They are going to hurt consumers in our Nation by substituting politicians' judgments for local judges and juries. Here we have spent many, many days and many, many hours on a power grab--essentially, a Federal Government power grab--brought by this Republican Congress in the Contract With America, a power grab to say that we in the almighty Senate know better than a judge or jury what someone who has been burned beyond recognition ought to be able to get from those at fault; what someone who perhaps was paralyzed should get; what someone would be able to get if a physician, perhaps in a stupor, makes a dreadful mistake.”