Politics must not undermine the principles and standards we apply to every judicial nomination.
You stand up for good people even if you don't fully agree with them. And we have a President who happens to differ with me, but he was elected! Frankly, who am I to stand here and say this President shouldn't have who he wants?
The cable lines will have to be kept open, and I think this memorandum of understanding is a step in the right direction.
The marble columns will stand tall like silent sentinels and the busts of the great Americans which line the upper wall will study our every move-sometimes approvingly, more often than not with raised eyebrows. As always.
You've acted, I think, with the highest honor as White House counsel. I stand ready and willing to help you.
We must use a judicial, rather than a political, standard to evaluate Judge Roberts' fitness for the Supreme Court. That standard must be based on the fundamental principle that judges interpret and apply but do not make law.
This vote should have been 100-0. But 78 senators applied the right standard in evaluating a judicial nominee - a nonpolitical standard - and that's a good sign.
We have one Democrat who was willing to stand up to his own caucus. Let me tell you, that was a big-time thing.