Daniel E. Lungren: “What it does is change the process and provide an incentive for resolution of the problem in a specific, practical way.”

The greatest protection for our civil liberties and against their invasion was the construct of government that we set up.

Senator Everett Dirksen once said a billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.

I have observed with concern the American public, who appears to have lost some considerable faith with the present state of our politics and governance.

I think you do what we've done in the past, which is require the companies responsible to pay for the remediation.