Mark my words … I mean what I say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, July 1, 2002 | by John Elvin

"The tobacco cases are merely the blueprint for a strategy of systematically transferring political power to a select few."

--Edwin Meese III and Paul Rosenzweig in National Review, commenting on how lawyers will use mass tort cases to dictate policy issues and then use the resulting windfalls to buy a Congress that favors their agenda.

"They're not going to sock it away in a 401(k)."

--Rep. David Bonior (D-Mich.) defends proposed hikes in the minimum wage on grounds that workers now making $10,700 per year would have more to spend, thus boosting the economy.

"We are finding that despite our many differences, the community of man, even in different countries, can reach consensus on what intent, actions and attitudes of crime are especially depraved."

--Forensic psychiatrist Michael Welner, developer of the "depravity scale;' an attempt to provide a standardized legal definition of evil, regarding the reception to his research findings.