Political Quotes

“every week I wonder just what new step the special prosecutor, Mr. Starr, will find himself carrying out, and each week it seems he does not disappoint. One week, we will recall, a citizen had the temerity to ask why Prosecutor Starr was using the results of an illegal wiretap, something that had been reported in the press that, without a doubt, he was using an illegal--illegal--wiretap. This citizen had the audacity to question Mr. Starr. Of course, he got slapped with a subpoena, had to spend as much money on a lawyer as he saved for a year's college tuition for one of his children and was brought into the star chamber, the grand jury, and had to say why he dared question the man behind the curtain. This was probably as outrageous an abuse of prosecutorial discretion as anything I have seen in a while, but unlike prosecutors who are elected or Senators who are elected or people who are elected, Mr. Starr, the Republican prosecutor, does not have to respond to anybody, and he has an unlimited budget. He sent a very clear signal: ``If you dare question my use of illegal tactics, I'll stop you from questioning me, I'll make you spend so much money that you can't do it.'' And, of course, he has an unlimited amount of money himself so he can do that. He then topped that outrageous activity by bringing Monica Lewinsky's mother before him and for day after day grilled her on things that her daughter may have told her in confidence.…”