I found it was easier to get out of bed than to stay in bed, so I got out of bed and went about my business,

When you have a decision which has been in effect for decades and people have come to rely upon it,

That looks to me as if it may be obstruction of the committee’s activities.

[But Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), a member of Hatch’s committee, took issue with that view.] I rechecked the Constitution. I do not believe that ignoring a subpoena would be grounds for impeachment, … Late Edition.

The story contained some allegations that I think require investigation,

We have a major, major problem on our hands, … It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Terrorism remains the No. 1 problem in the United States today. It is not a matter of attaching blame, it is a matter of correcting any errors so that we don’t have a repetition of...

We are not going to budge, it is our prerogative on the power of the purse and we’re not going to yield on that point. So there is a stalemate, … We proposed to send...

Do you regard the evolution of various interpretations on liberty as a living thing, as Justice Harlan did, and as Justice Rehnquist appeared to on the Miranda issue?

There isn’t anything we could have done that we haven’t done, … It’s been a real 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week, 365-day-a-year effort. So you don’t see me perspiring today, and you don’t see me tense.

There is a keen interest in many quarters on concluding before Thanksgiving , and that’s a fine target if it can be accomplished, … But we’re going to do it right. We’re not going to...

As the president ponders the nominee to replace Sandra Day O’Connor, it is my hope that there will be a balance maintained on the court.

She’s not a showoff or a grandstander.

We have done more than cut the fat. We have done more than cut through the muscle. We have done more than cut through to the bone. We have cut into the marrow. It is...

a very heavy commitment to legal interpretation which might differ from his own personal views.

I can understand that Trent is anxious. So am I. But when you take a look at the particulars, all the delays that Ken Starr has faced, I think he has to be given more...

great deal more contentious.

He has picked a candidate and our job is to determine not whether she’s the best qualified, but whether she’s qualified.

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

But I don’t believe in a quota system, and it may be that at this particular time, President Bush would like to have someone other than a woman, and I don’t think his hands ought...

ill-suited to capture the nuance of oral arguments and the sustained attention of the American citizenry.

There has been a generalization that justices like to retire at the end of a term so as not to disrupt the work of the court, … if you were to have a 4-4 court,...

I think the Department of Defense owes the American people an explanation of what went on here,

He said there was a right to privacy,

It’s going to depend on how well she does. If she makes her case, she can be confirmed.

I do see a great deal of popular and Congressional dissatisfaction with the judicial activism; and, at a minimum, the Senate’s determination to confirm new justices who will respect Congress’ constitutional role,

Senator Reid is entitled to his opinion, but he’s not the president of the United States, and he doesn’t administer justice in this country,

the hallmark agenda of the judicial activism of the Rehnquist Court.

I believe more precisely she took the position that the American Bar Association should not take a position on Roe, … I’m sure that will be the subject of inquiry, and I would expect to...

I do hope that when we in the Congress, both in this body — when responsibilities come to the Senate — and the other body, in the House of Representatives, there will be an approach...

At any rate, Congress hasn’t acted, and that’s really what the focus of our hearing is today as to what ought to be done.

The new chief justice will have his work cut out to try and bring consensus to the court, … There is much to be done to move away from the 5-4 decisions of the court.

We all have a responsibility to ask probing questions to determine qualification beyond academic and professional standing.

The word is, he was looking for a way to interrupt somebody in the middle of the word ‘if,

So my record is pretty plain, that, although I am pro-choice, I have supported many pro-life nominees,

It would take us less time to handle this trial than to handle the talk shows,

He will enforce the laws, no matter what his personal opinion may be.

embedded deep in the culture of the country.

We are proceeding in a matter of the utmost, utmost gravity — the potential for impeachment of the president of the United States — and I think American people will demand and are entitled to...

There’s no doubt that there are many people on both sides who want to fight. That’s their principal objective: Gear up the troops, go out and raise money and justify your existence as a special-interest...

When the option is to throw them away or use them [in research], it seems to me a clear-cut choice.

I believe the next nomination is going to be a great deal more contentious than the Roberts nomination. I say that because, bubbling just below the surface was a lot of frustration in the hearing...

[Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) says senators are free to ask any question they like, and the nominee is free to answer fully, partially or not at all.] Nominees, … tend to answer just as...

We hammered out what I think is a good bill. … Not a perfect bill, but a good bill.

The president was noncommittal. The body language was not very positive.

His approach of modesty, of stability, and away from judicial activism, I think, is a model. Whether it is carried out, remains to be seen.

no doubt about that.

I intend to do just that, Senator Grassley, now that I have your support.

Everything I know about her is good, but there needs to be, obviously, a very thorough inquiry into her background.

There’s a very keen interest in learning more on all sides,