20 Quotes by Slade Gorton

The state attorneys general have abandoned the slightest precepts that they're representing consumers, ... There are no consumer allegations in their complaint, and I doubt very seriously that there will be any in the Department of Justice's complaint because there is no damage to consumers. Consumers aren't asking for this lawsuit.

a sacred contract between the federal government and those who count on it for tomorrow.

All 10 of us are seriously disappointed in the F.B.I..

For decades Washington, D.C., has taken more and more control of your local schools. The federal government sends a little bit of money but a truckload of rules and regulations,

The Microsoft lawsuit was totally ill-conceived from the beginning. It should have been a private action because it was primarily aimed to benefit a number of Microsoft competitors.

I'm very happy to have that lead, disappointed that I told many of you you'd be able to go to sleep on a final result yesterday, and that's not quite the case. I'm optimistic about the ultimate result.

In this we're giving the House every benefit of the doubt. And if more than one-third of the senators say ... under no circumstances, no matter what they prove, will I vote to convict, the question arises, do you go through the whole trial?

I don't think that anyone could say that both administrations were asleep,

I cannot will to my children and grandchildren the proposition that a president stands above the law and can systematically obstruct justice simply because both his polls and the Dow Jones index was high,