Political Quotes

“one of the reasons for being proud to be an American, one of the reasons I ran for Congress, one of the reasons I studied law was to try and achieve justice for people. Justice is what is your due. It is not being cheated, it is not being defrauded, and it is certainly not being pushed around. I have learned in a long life that people do get pushed around, and they can be pushed around by their government. I was very late coming to that decision, but I learned that people in government, exercising government power are human beings, like anybody else, and they are capable of error, they are capable of hubris, they are capable of overreaching, and yes, on very infrequent occasions they are capable of pushing people around. And so when something like that happens, it is doubly shocking because you have no place to turn. If the Government, your last resort, is your oppressor, you really have no place to turn. I am one who is hopeful and optimistic about the Government. I am very proud of my government. I think on the whole it tries very hard to do justice for its citizens. But occasionally it lapses, as I say, because it is made up of human beings. We have a law called the Equal Access to Justice Act, which provides in a civil case if the Government sues you, and you prevail, if the Government cannot prove substantial justification in bringing the suit, you are entitled to have attorney's fees and costs reimbursed. That is justice.”