33 Quotes by Joan Claybrook

This report exposes one of the biggest con jobs in recent history. This long-running, secretive campaign funded by some of the country's wealthiest families has relied on deception to bamboozle the public not only about who must pay the estate tax, but about how repealing it will affect the country.

Electing Representative Blunt means choosing more of the same corruption plaguing the system now.

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

The shame of this situation is that both Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone have known about this problem for eight years, ... The companies have settled a number of lawsuits under gag orders, which prohibited the lawyers or victims in the cases from talking about them. As a result, safety officials and the public have been kept in the dark.

These documents suggest that Bush was acting as promoter in chief for Enron and its business interests at a time when he was getting ready to raise money for his run for president,

Right now, they're going to stop $50 meals, but they are still able to throw these elaborate convention parties that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in honor of a congressman.

DeLay was very astute at pushing legislation that was advantageous to people who would give him money.

A very awesome responsibility. We're quite concerned that she's never done anything regulatory. ... She hasn't done any policy work.

This is something they've known about for a long time.