If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people’s lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

Oh, Judge, Judge, Judge…

[The group also launched a $400,000 ad buy on Fox and CNN starting August 31 called] Precedent, … should not answer questions that force him to pre-judge cases.

It’s incompetence, from my perspective, looking at this.

1983:To my generation has now come the challenge. In the days to come we will be tested on whether we have the moral courage, the realism, the idealism, the tenacity, and the ability to sacrifice...

Go ahead and continue not to answer,

there will be no legitimacy to the constitution.

Methamphetamine causes much more destruction in a much shorter period of time,

I don’t expect any Democratic stampede to set a firm date.

They’re going to have to see more Sunnis brought into the constitution-writing if there’s going to be any legitimacy at the end of the day, … And I think we’ll see that.

To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can’t learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up...

People are suspect because they believe your ideology blinds you to equal application of the law, and the facts,

Accountability is essential. So the question for me is, what did Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the Pentagon know, when did they know it and what did they do about it? … If the answers...

Gonzales’s nomination may very well do us more harm internationally because of his relationship with the terror memos and that is a different story.

quoting from Neil Kinnock, running against Thatcher in 1987:Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in...

That’s if we do it to you. Go ahead. Go ahead and continue not to answer.

I say that everything has to be on the table,

You are one of the best witnesses, I think, that has come before this committee. You’ve convinced folks who share Senator Brownback’s view that you’re going to be just right for them and you’ve convinced...

We have repeatedly missed the deadlines for increasing power [and] oil production, … As temperatures approach 120 degrees in the third summer since Saddam’s statue came down, Iraqis still have only about eight hours a...

This combination of benchmarks and regular public accountability would go a long way toward convincing the American people that they are getting the facts in Iraq and that we have a strategy for success.

We must have public officials who will stand up and tell the people exactly what they think… Our failure in recent years has not been the failure of the people to meet the challenges placed...

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

There is no certainty about a resolution,

One thing is clear: These weapons must be must be dislodged from Saddam, or Saddam must be dislodged from power,

The conservatives could sneer about “social engineering” if they wanted, but I thought that most people believed as I did that government should embody our best hopes and lend a hand to people who were...

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

What they gain is not having to tell the American people the truth.

I think it gives suits and not the turbans — the way it’s referred to in the Shiite sector — an opportunity to make their case that they have to, in fact, bring in specifically...

He doesn’t speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don’t think he speaks for the majority of Democrats, … This Week.

George Bush is our president. We have one president at at time. He is the president, and no one is running against George Bush,

Acknowledging that a woman’s right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a “civil right,” I believed, was critically important in changing the American consciousness. When a right reaches the status and categorization of...

And I think Hillary Clinton is able to be elected president of the United States.

I mean it’s basic block and tackle stuff, … There’s not sufficient cops, sufficient fencing, sufficient cameras. It is just criminal.

Just talk to me as a father not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled by the anthem of self-interest. For a decade, led by Ronald...

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

candor.

We are willing to vote 10 minutes after we get back in session if in fact they provide the information — information that Mr. Bolton’s staff had access to that they will not give to...

You not only have a right to choose what you will answer and not answer, but in my view, you should not answer.

I think if I had this evidence before a jury, I could get a conviction,

you should not run for president because tactically you can win. The questions you have to ask are why you’re running for president and what will you do when you are president. You shouldn’t run...

That’s good to know.

In my view, the public is served best by questions that initiate a dialogue with the nominee, not about how she will decide any specific case that may come before her, but about the spirit...

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

He wanted me to understand two big things: First, that nobody, no group, is above others. Public servants are obliged to level with everybody, whether or not they’ll like what he has to say. And...

Just talk to me as a father ‘¦ not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

This place just loves contrition, … We all make mistakes.

By the end of ’06 we’re going to have a pretty clear picture of whether or not it’s succeeding or failing, … And success will be dependent upon a government that’s representative and a capacity...

[After Roberts explained his views on privacy and his legal philosophy, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said,] You’ve told me nothing, Judge. … we are rolling the dice with you.

continue to mislead the American people about the state of affairs. And it’s incredibly, incredibly, incredibly dangerous.