This proposal does not simply affect a small portion of wealthy homeowners; it would impact nearly the entire state, and worse, those who are living paycheck to paycheck may be forced to sell their homes....

What kind of justice would you be?

It’s a very sobering hallmark, … It indicates that we need to rethink where we are in Iraq.

It’s deplorable and it casts a pall of shame worldwide over what the United States says, versus what it does,

What you see is major Democratic elected officials in the state of California supporting this Republican governor,

I mean, you know, we weren’t born yesterday.

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

right to be left alone.

There is a new resolution of the way we are going,

This memo was very consequential and should have been analyzed at the highest levels of the intelligence community. Sadly it was not.

He has said two different things,

[Church-state separation. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asked Roberts whether he believed in the separation of church and state as set forth in the First Amendment. She quoted President John F. Kennedy as having said in...

I would hope that people on both sides would hold their fire, allow the Judiciary Committee to do its work, and not take a position until that work is completed,

I would say she has problems with both.

As the only woman on the committee, I have an additional role to play: representing the views and concerns of 145 million American women during this hearing process, … It is my hope that Judge...

The Senate needs to stop this effort in its tracks.

To the loved ones of those who have been killed or injured I extend my deepest sympathy, … Their deaths must not be in vain.

The pivotal appointment is the next one.

Many of us are struggling with . . . what kind of a justice would you be, John Roberts,

The right wing effectively killed this nomination,

I don’t believe (Clinton’s actions rise) to the level of impacting a danger on the nation to the extent that the nation has to be saved by removing this president from his office.

I think these efforts really have been totally overwhelmed by the pervasive endemic corruption throughout the Mexican government, the Mexican police and now the Mexican military,

It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the...

I think the president is well advised to take heed of this,

Simply put, I didn’t find the argument that he was just an employee doing just what his bosses wanted [to be] credible.

We want to look at all the intelligence community work and see how it was used,

was a little disappointed.

California came out of the (base-closure) process about as well as could be expected.

Feinstein, Democrat of California, said on the CNN program ”Late Edition.

What bothers me is the Republicans, when things aren’t going their way, tend to try to change the rules.

I’ve learned something, and that is that the real meaning is in the public hearings, … I ask questions in the public hearing, and those are the answers that go into the transcript.

The Brownback bill is not designed to promote research and it would stop the California initiative in its tracks,

We will do everything in our power to stop it.

Did you really think that way and do you think that way today?

The way she’s being beaten up by the far right is very sexist. People should hold their fire, and give people an opportunity to come before a hearing,

Pakistan has nothing but to gain if it shows restraint now.

I don’t really know what I’m going to do with respect to voting for you or against you.

I hate to see a woman go down this way. I really, really do.

In the last 10 years, the court has moved dramatically to the right?. I think the president is well advised to take heed of this. The nation is extraordinarily divided and polarized.

If he is going to go to war in a nation whose history shows it has never had a democracy — it has rival tribes, it has minorities that often are antagonistic — how we’re...

This raises very serious concerns about her ability to fairly apply the law without bias in this regard.

I’m now a judge. I’ve been on the circuit court for 15 years. It’s very different. I’m not an advocate’,

It’s got to either be made legal or shut down. What bothers me is the information we’re being given that the activity is increasing.

he was very sincere in what he said.

I want to limit it to the weapons of mass destruction and provide language that in the event the United Nations does not compel compliance, then the president would be authorized to use force. So...

There were a number of bits and pieces, and they weren’t put together,

After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, … Right now, the victims of Hurricane Katrina need our help. Entire communities have been destroyed....

The recall is creating uncertainty and instability. It’s bad for our economy, it’s bad for jobs and it’s bad for California,

I can’t be a Californian and believe that every member of the Supreme Court has to come out of Harvard,

It is my hope that Judge Roberts would play a role similar to Justice O’Connor’s on the court and bring with him a voice defined by temperance and open-mindedness,