Political Quotes

“I rise in support of H.R. 4003. Mr. Speaker, let me thank the gentleman from New York for his kind remarks, and let me assure him that if Max Weiner was around today and here he would probably be outside protesting all of us for some reason or another. Literally no less than a thousand times he has been out on the battlefield. He has filed in his lifetime probably more lawsuits against the Philadelphia Gas Works, the Philadelphia Electric Company, the Philadelphia Water Department, every State agency imaginable, fighting aggressively on behalf of individuals, and as class actions, consumers who, by some set of circumstance, based on the review of his organization, had been cheated either by the outcome or by a process, or somehow, nonetheless, even if the decision-making was correct, somehow still could not meet the burden that was being asked of them, and he would fight on their behalf. For many, many decades he led the Consumer Education and Protective Association of Philadelphia, and one could always be assured that at least on 6 days out of a 7-day-week he would be out in front of city hall with a table, with petitions, for some cause or another.”