Political Quotes

“The goal of product liability legislation is the recovery and development of those industries which make our lives better, which provide new and more effective treatment for medical conditions to which all of us are subject, more and better products for our enjoyment, for our transportation, for every other aspect of our lives. And when we can do that without denying a single claimant the right to go into court and the right to recover all of the actual damages that a jury awards to that plaintiff--all of the actual damages--and when we can do that at so low a cost to anyone except those who benefit from the litigation itself, it would not seem to me that this debate should have lasted as long as it did or that its result should still be so highly unpredictable. So, I congratulate Dr. Healy on her particular insight into this question, and say that insight can be expanded across the entire scope of the legislation with which we are dealing here and urgently speaks for its passage.”