Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it makes this industry crazy to be in court and to have to tell the truth, so they will fight desperately on. The $700 billion a year in subsidies makes it profitable to ``lawyer up'' by the boatload for this fight and to litigate to their damndest. So this is not over, but this may be the moment when the truth finally found a path around the ramparts of our well-kept congressional indifference and began to find its way into the daylight. That is one of the reasons the Founding Fathers gave us independent courts and juries. ``Representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty,'' wrote John Adams. Independent courts and trial by jury were a big deal to the founding generation. The Founding Fathers had a keen sense of history and of politics and of the mischief of conniving men. They were deeply concerned about corruption--corruption of the body politic by interests and factions. They knew the Bible and had read Isaiah's warning of how ``the faithful city has become a whore,'' with ``princes'' that are ``companions of thieves.'' They knew about abusive power. They could envision an interest become so powerful as to overwhelm the executive and legislative branches of government and bend those branches to its will. They could envision a special interest so powerful that it could buy its own presses and confuse or beguile the public with propaganda and nonsense.…”