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We are, after all, a nation of laws. And we live in a culture where carrying a form of identification is as normal as keeping your car keys in your pocket. When any of us walk into a grocery store and cashes a check, no one skips a beat when asked to present our driver's license.

People are savvy enough to know that simply a threat of litigation is tantamount to a nice, hefty check.

The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.