Political Quotes

“The lawyers that the gentleman suggests will benefit by this work for the many, many, many American businesses who strongly support this legislation. And would the gentleman suggest, and I am sure the gentlewoman would not suggest, that those businesses are interested in legislation because it will give them the opportunity to pay more in legal fees? Of course not. They are interested in this legislation because it stops submarine patenting where one lawyer, one lawyer got $150 million in contingent fees. And do my colleagues know where that money came from? It came from American business. And do my colleagues know what it gets paid for? American business passes their costs on to the consumers and taxpayers in this country, and that is what this legislation is all about. It is not to help lawyers.”