Political Quotes

“Class action is an important part of our legal system. It has done a great deal to help people work their way through the process. The fact that I as a trial lawyer have not taken a class action lawsuit does not mean I didn't like class action litigation. It is a specialty. As with the example I gave dealing with antitrust litigation, you better know what you are doing before you get into the class action litigation. We all know what took place with tobacco litigation. Attorneys general from all over America joined in that. The State of Nevada has benefited from that class action litigation dealing with tobacco. We have a program a Republican Governor in the State of Nevada initiated that is very popular. It is called the Millennial Scholarships. If you graduate from a Nevada high school--any place in Nevada; there are 17 counties--with good grades, you get to go to school with your tuition paid for by tobacco. That is what this is all about. It is about people having the opportunity to go forward with litigation, when normally these people would be totally unprotected.”