“I think perjury—lying under oath and encouraging lies under oath—does go to the heart and soul of what courts do,” I said. “And if we say we don’t care, let’s forget about courts and we’ll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes. Let’s abolish the judiciary. But as long as we have the courts—I think any judge worth his or her salt would say, ‘We cannot tolerate perjury.’”

Excerpt From: Ken Starr. “Contempt.” iBooks.