The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.

Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.