Political Quotes

“I would like to address briefly some of the remarks I have heard on the debate this evening concerning the tort reform bill, and particularly the punitive damages aspect of that bill, the claims being made on one side that sexual predators and drug dealers will no longer be subject to punitive damages. Certainly as an emotional issue as this type of conduct, these types of conduct are, I wanted to clarify from my viewpoint and from my experience as a civil attorney for about 20 years, which included about 2 years as a U.S. attorney as a Federal prosecutor, my experience in the area of punitive damages and this type of conduct which I find was not really connected. I never saw, in my experience, a sexual predator suit in civil court, but rather the more likely remedy the law has there is a criminal prosecution, the aggressive criminal prosecution of people who sexually pray on children. Likewise with drug dealers, what we come out there with drug dealers is they are arrested and prosecuted under the criminal law, not suing them civilly, where we put these types of people in jail for their conduct.”