Ken Starr Quotes
I just have problems when practicing lawyers become billionaires—it means the transactional costs are too high.
Kenneth W. Starr, U. S. Solicitor General (Republican), Independent Counsel, C-SPAN, Book TV, October 23, 2002
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By 2015, the income inequality had gotten so bad that even billionaires were expressing alarm.
Answering a question about the environmental Super Fund
Putin was the then Russian President. Corruption was rampant.
He was explaining why Section 2 of the Civil Rights Act which allowed normal lawsuits to be filed against officials who were installing schemes to make it difficult for minorities to vote just did not work. Section 5—Preclearance he argued was needed. Preclearance was a requirement that any change in the voting or registration laws, rules or procedures needed to be approved by the Federal Justice Department.
In Ireland at the time the established church—the Protestant Anglican Church of Ireland—had the legal right to collect annual Tithes from the population in order to fund the activities of the Church. One difficulty however, was that the majority of the population were Roman Catholics. The poorest of them could not afford the tithe payments to any church. The Irish Protestant clergy lived in a particularly sumptuous style and were much more interested in politics and maintaining the Protestant ascendency than they were in ministering to the poor and had no interest in aiding the Catholic poor.
Kenneth Winston Starr is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge and 39th solicitor general of the United States. He is best known for heading an investigation of members of the Clinton administration, known as the Whitewater controversy.
