Political Quotes

“last week the Government's misguided and collusive antitrust suit against the Microsoft Corporation recessed for a much-needed break. It only could be improved by making the recess permanent. I urge my colleagues to make use of the trial's recess to learn about this case, and this industry. Nothing less is at stake here than the freedom to innovate, the key to America's economic success. We ignore this prosecution at our peril, because the United States Government is trying to kill the goose that lays golden eggs in the home states of every one of my esteemed colleagues. It is not simply a Washington-state company that needs shoring up; it is the industry leader that has fueled our recent unprecedented economic miracle, created hundreds of thousands of new jobs to fill those being lost in other sectors of the economy, established America as the global leader in high technology and redefined almost every aspect of our lives--and yet is under siege by a hopelessly time-locked Department of Justice, whose theory of antitrust was shaped in the 60s, when big business was bad, big government good, and facts never got in the way of a nice regulatory scheme.”