Christopher Shays: “It may be that the executive branch is your champion and my champion on this issue and that the judicial branch isn't.…”

“It may be that the executive branch is your champion and my champion on this issue and that the judicial branch isn't. It could be a different court. It could be filled with different people. In response to the question, do I think all virtue is in the executive branch: of course not. In response to the question, do I think all virtue is in the judicial branch: of course not. In response to the question, do I think all virtue is in this place: no, I think it is not, and that is why I want that balance, and that is why I want those powers separate, and I will fight as hard as I can to somehow cut out one branch from the process that it was given to us by the Founding Fathers. I know we are all sincere here, and at the end I could be wrong, but I feel this as passionately as my colleagues do on the other side.”