Every lawyer Susan and I ever discussed this with said 'Rosenblatt, you're out of your mind,' ... This was like taking on a country, taking on the tobacco industry. |
I don't think that two years of hard work ... is gonna go down the drain on some technicality. |
I want to know how you can apologize to these people in good conscience when you know that every day ... by selling your product, you're creating new victims? |
Is there any greater risk factor than smoking? |
It was a day of reckoning . Six thoughtful, courageous American listened to testimony for close to two years and, damn it, they did the right thing. |
It would be a great pleasure ... a great pleasure to bring them down where they belong. |
Secondhand smoke causes cancer and other diseases. But the tobacco industries' overall global strategy and tactic was to plant doubt in the minds of the American people ... Does it really? |
These [are] secret negotiations by essentially a bunch of politically ambitious attorneys general, ... They want their cases to reimburse the treasuries of Florida and other states. |
This industry has left a half-century trail of deceit which has decimated millions of Americans, ... Never have so few caused so much harm to so many for so long, and the day of reckoning has arrived. |
This is terrific, and terrific he did it so quickly. |
We are, quite frankly, suspicious that a plan is in the works to prevent our national class action, on behalf of some 60,000 flight attendants, from going to trial on Monday, |
We ask you to speak for all those silent, anonymous victims of tobacco grieved by their loved ones but unknown to a callous and deceitful industry, |
Who said that? I want to meet that person. |