Political Quotes

“I am not a big fan--I think many of my colleagues know this--of the Federal Government taking over State legal systems. If you can do it at home, it is better to do it at home. I am not a big fan of deciding what is fair before the jury meets. We have honest differences on some of those issues. Having said all that, there is a huge need for legal reform. I cannot tell you one system in America that really doesn't need to be reformed, the legal system included. My friend from Alabama is absolutely right. What we are trying to do today is correct an abuse. The Constitution, as he read to us, envisioned a dynamic where we would have two people from different States and we would not want to put one person in the other person's backyard. The Constitution has survived so long and so well, and it spoke to that and said: Let's take that into Federal court, a neutral side. As the diversity clause of the Constitution has been interpreted, it requires complete diversity of all plaintiffs and all defendants.”