After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it’s good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

I will vote my hopes and not my fears.

She has a burden. Everyone who comes before this committee has a burden, but I think her burden is perhaps higher.

We want a good seed. We’re not content being the eighth seed. We want to be sixth seed or the fifth seed. So we have to win a host of games over the next 23....

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views, … justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

We feel we have the weapons to score,

It’s time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and...

Evasions, avoidance and hiding behind legal jargon simply will not suffice, … We need and deserve to know what is in your mind and in your heart.

I think the guys understand it. If we’re going to be a winning team, we have to defend. They really want to win. They recognize the fun quickly goes away if you don’t win.

Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year.

Judicial excellence involves candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power, so we want to know how he or she will exercise this power and how they see the world....

It needs to be completed and gone into in greater detail. We need some better answers and that’s particularly true about her since she has such a thin resume in the context of the job...

It makes the hearings even more important, … It raises the bar higher, simply because the job is even higher. Chief justice is at another level.

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, … And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is...

She made the point that it was at a different time for a different purpose, … And (she said) we should not read too much into that in terms of where she might be on...

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.

You know, that would be one of those memos that I no longer agree with, Senator. I didn’t fully appreciate what was involved in the confirmation process when I wrote that.

She understands that when she comes before the committee, people will be looking for more than broad statements,

I think her burden is perhaps higher.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.

that her knowledge, her philosophy, her experience is sufficient so that we can conclude that she is qualified to be a justice.

Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.

If (Roberts) had been nominated, as he was originally, to replace Justice O’Connor, then his confirmation would have moved the Court to the right, … That would have a much more difficult decision. It is...

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

I’ll just say he saw Roe v. Wade as occupying in that area of American life a central place and as being something that people depend on, and that has come to be very strongly...

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and...

My hope is that the White House considers this concern,

Larry has done a good job as our general manager,

All the Wisconsin and Beloit stuff in their offices made me feel at home,

As I said to him upstairs, ‘The real work starts now,’

Well, you’re likely to be confirmed, as we all know.

Those kinds of decisions emanate from the GM, I don’t know if it’s something that happens in the second year of a deal. I find that hard to believe.

When the President makes something a priority, we see action.

And he understands that’s a big responsibility. He’s a leader on a team that has great aspirations.

it’s much easier now for one man’s home to become another man’s castle.