Orrin Hatch Senator Quotations

Senators can ask any questions they want, but these justice nominees really don't have to answer them,

Senator Reid is a good friend of mine, ... but he has shown that he doesn't have Utah's best interests in mind.

They cannot, as they have been doing now for more than six weeks, keep filibuster hopes alive by suggestions and hints, and then claim their political hands are clean when senators on this side of the aisle respond.

Some have said that nominees who do not spill their guts about whatever a senator wants to know are hiding something from the American people.

Some have said I should join with Senator Reid in a West-wide movement against Yucca Mountain,

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.

I will say to the senator from Massachusetts, that America mourns with you, and the U.S. Senate mourns with you, your family and the Bessette family as well,