I'm prepared to do everything I can to stop the nomination of Justice Pickering. We can do a lot better. |
I've called for a thorough house-cleaning in the vice president's office, but what they've done is just rearrange some office furniture, ... It is time for the president and vice president to bring in a new team of advisers who are above ethical reproach, like Reagan did in his second term, not stonewall like Nixon did during Watergate. |
I've said to the people at the White House that you say you need all the resources to fight the war overseas, but to fight the war on terror at home with no money is like saying let's fight the war in Iraq with no new money, ... It makes no sense whatsoever. |
Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges. |
If ever a state deserves to have a citizen appointed to [head the Department of] Homeland Security, it is New York. |
If ever there was a time that cried out for consensus, the time is now. |
If Goldman builds here, others will come. And we need others to come. |
If he (Roberts) refuses to answer questions on decided cases, ... I'm going to need a lot more time to try to get to the bottom of who he is. |
If he [John Roberts] is a Miguel Estrada and just refuses abjectly to answer everything, it would make a filibuster more likely, |
If he is out of the mainstream and will use his tremendously powerful position as Supreme Court judge to impose his views on the American people, then there's a potential for a filibuster, and no one really knows that until the hearings. |
If he's a mainstream conservative, if he doesn't use a court to impose his views on the American people, he's likely to get approved, If he is out of the mainstream and will use his tremendously powerful position as Supreme Court judge to impose his views on the American people, then there's a potential for a filibuster, and no one really knows that until the hearings. |
If Judge Roberts repeatedly resorts to the so-called 'Ginsburg Precedent,' it will sound less like a principled refusal to answer and more like a variation on the Fifth Amendment: 'I refuse to answer that question on the ground that it may incriminate me. Answering may reveal my actual views about constitutional law and cause me to lose votes,' |
If nominating a hard-core conservative served the president's interests, why didn't he do it the first two times? |
If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, ... With a comprehensive tracking system, we would. |
If the gun lobby is really serious about enforcing tough gun laws, then the NRA should endorse this bill and put their muscle into passing it. |