What people up there want to know, Democrats and Republicans, is what is the challenge ahead, how are you handling that and what did you do wrong in the past, |
What we need to know are the kinds of things that are coming before the court now. And it makes it hard to figure out what kind of justice you will be, particularly in light of the fact we have little else to go on, |
When a country cannot deal with an issue in a straightforward, forthright way, when a country that has had success takes a step back because a narrow few have some ideological notion that everyone should be entitled to have any weapon they want-some of them even believe a bazooka or a tank is okay-then something is wrong. |
When an agency becomes as large and bureaucratic as they are, there's trouble, ... This Week. |
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done. |
When Sonny came to Congress, I looked at him as just another Hollywood politician, ... Working together on the Judiciary Committee, I came to admire and respect him. |
When the Klan has been forced to unmask, they have been broken. |
When was the last time that a covert agent's name was leaked, jeopardizing that agent's life, the life of that agent's network, of informants and the security of this country? ... This is not just another ordinary leak. |
When you add it all up you are being less forthcoming ... with this committee than just about any other person who has come before us. |
When you put together a prescription drug bill that puts the pharmaceutical and insurance industry first, and the recipients way down at the bottom, of course you're going to get one big mess. And we have it. |
Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11. |
whether you're in the mainstream. |
While the Port of Hong Kong is screening everything, we are screening next to nothing. |
While this nomination did not warrant an attempt to block the nominee on the floor of the Senate, the next one might. |
Why am I up here supporting this bill? Because I think we are in a new era . . . where every one of us has to give a little bit. We heard the president speak, we were unified yesterday, we must keep that unity. |