Political Quotes

“How truly typical it is, sad though it is, that the first piece of legislation dealing with the Enron-Andersen fiasco that our House Republican leadership permits us to discuss here on the floor of the United States Congress is a bill designed to protect the wrongdoer and to place more burdens on the victims. This is exactly the opposite of where our priorities should be; yet that is the approach that is taken with this piece of legislation. It is rather fundamental that a right without a remedy, is rather meaningless. People do not choose to come together in class actions because they like to be in a class with many other people; they come together in class actions because often, that is the only way, given the complexities of our legal system and the tremendous imbalance in power between one individual who has been defrauded and one of the largest corporations in the world, to equalize the power. All this bill is designed to do is to help those, who committed wrongs to avoid responsibility for their wrongdoing.”