David Souter, Former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice:
I don’t worry about our losing republican government in the United States because I’m afraid of a foreign invasion. What I worry about is that, when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible.
And when the problems get bad enough, as they might do, for example, with another serious terrorist attack, as they might do with another financial meltdown, someone person will come forward and say, give me total power and I will solve this problem.
