The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, … recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy,...

Regrettably, you need homeland security, and I think you are going to need it if not forever, for the foreseeable future,

I have felt that this is a matter that ought to be undertaken with the federal government behind these kinds of prosecutions. It is a signal to the haters in America.

There’s been more controversy before this nominee has uttered a formal word than I have ever heard,

Absolutely not. I think that would be a sign of incredible weakness.

I believe the vote will come during the week of September 26. That’s when the floor leader will bring up … the matter. I would suspect that we’d vote by Thursday the 29th, … Face...

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They can ask him what his views are on those subjects, and whether they represent his views today, … They’ve got a lot of paper to confront him with.

It is unfair to start the hearings before she’s ready,

I hope we do not come back to the terrible schism we had, … That just about tore the Senate apart, and it has the potential to do it again, except that the stakes would...

But there’s no doctrinal basis erosion in Roe, is there?

If you have a sharp turn in the court you undercut reliance, expectation, and, as Roberts would say, stability,

And I think he may have a little different view about television, something that I have advocated for more than a decade in the court, … He’s a new generation.

There is a great mystique of the Senate Caucus Room, … We are going to open up the hearings there.

has a lot of kick in it.

We’re dealing with national security. And we have to find out what happened and let the chips fall where they may. We have to take very, very aggressive action to solve the problems at the...

Here you have a reporter in jail for 85 days and millions of Americans wonder why? I’m one of those.

Judge Roberts, I’m not talking about an issue. I’m talking about the essence of jurisprudence.

I am very anxious to get this hearing into the hearing room, where we have a stenographer and we have a witness and we have orderly procedures, … and take the proceedings away from the...

When that court has secrets, they keep the secrets. Candidly, unlike the Congress. Candidly, unlike the administration. Candidly, unlike all of Washington, perhaps all of the world.

is clearly trying to distance himself from an unpopular president and an unpopular agenda.

The President was considering doing something presidential to try to focus attention away from — his own personal problems.

There’s a very decisive bipartisan flavor to this vote,

I think it would have been smarter had the attorney general, looking at the many years of Starr’s involvement and the public perception, which is adverse to Starr … let someone else come in, …...

You don’t have the votes in the House of Representatives to overcome a presidential veto.

[The Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision rejected Congress’s findings and its] method of reasoning, … Is there any real justification for the court’s denigrating Congress’s ‘method of reasoning’?

I want to accommodate people as best as I could.

[Noting that Bush said during the third campaign debate that he would] not impose a litmus test … would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations I’ve mentioned.

It would be quite a sacrifice for her, but she’s prepared to do it if she is asked, … By next June we’ll know a lot more about Judge Roberts … than we do today.

She’s intelligent, she’s hard-working, unquestioned integrity. She fought her way up, couldn’t get a job when she graduated from law school because she was a woman.

The majority leader has committed to bringing it up as one of the first items next year,

There likely will be a national debate about whether the president really has the kind of power he’s been using.

Mr. Rove, like every other citizen, is entitled to the presumption of innocence, and until somebody says that he’s done something wrong, he ought to be permitted to go about his business like anybody else.

What is your thinking on the jurisprudence of U.S. v. Lopez and U.S. v. Morrison, which overturned almost 60 years of Congress’ power under the Commerce Clause?

I’m intrigued by his concept of a dialogue among equals,

[Specter said afterward that he had urged Bush to delay naming a choice to succeed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.] The president was noncommittal, … The body language was not very positive.

Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility,

three possible verdicts: guilty, not guilty, not proved.

biggest challenge of the year and perhaps the decade.

And that’s why I believe — and I have seen with my experience in the Senate the value of public hearings — when FBI Director Mueller has to answer these questions, when CIA Director Tenet...

If the Senate were to reject the treaty, then it would be highly publicized worldwide. It would be an open excuse for countries like India and Pakistan to continue nuclear testing which I think is...

Look here, we’re faced with a lot of undesirable alternatives. And rather than put the country through impeachment, which I don’t believe would result in anything … let him serve out his term

The hearings will not start until there is a date agreeable to her, … It would be unfair to start the hearings before she is ready.

This is a sad episode.

Basically, Americans do not understand the gravity of the oversights on what appears to be the case with both the FBI and the CIA,

the fight that people have been anticipating for some time.

to stand by that which is decided.

There was no explanation as to why the memo did not go to other places. Nobody knows at this stage, and that is something that has to be pursued.

[But Republican Arlen Specter (Pa.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also expressed irritation when Roberts refused to answer questions about several Supreme Court decisions striking down laws passed by Congress to help the...

I think her record shows very substantial capacity to take on tough assignments and do them well,