Freedom and security are always at tension in our society. We tried our best to strike the right balance. Now it’s time to return to discussion of what aspects we got right and what modifications...

Time-Warner can do their entertainment any way they want. But the news should be competitive and objective. And secondly, I’d want to see what happens in the cable business. An awful lot of cable users...

We should have been eagerly telling that part of the world, especially the Muslim part of that world, that we here in America are generous, are good people, and we are strongly committed to help...

Despite my misgivings, I have acquiesced in some of the administration’s proposals because it is important to preserve national unity in this time of crisis and to move the legislative process forward,

It’s far more important to do it right than fast. In this case, I suspect we’re doing both.

Access to these highly accurate tests helps convict the guilty and exonerate the innocent,

It would have been unseemly to go forward with a hearing on his successor this week.

I’m not even going to comment on something that disgusting, … Really, I’m thinking of my black grandchild and I’m going to hold (off).

I don ‘ t know of anybody who would tell you in that committee, that they were satisfied with the responses. So I would describe myself as unsatisfied, and I have to be satisfied before...

I want to hear … what controls the FBI has in place when Carnivore is used to ensure the program is operated only as authorized by the court order. This keeping in mind the fact...

There’s a real potential of criminal conduct here, there will certainly be grand juries looking at this,

What strikes some people as ‘indecent’ or ‘patently offensive’ may look very different to other people in another part of the country.

I want to know why many at the White House and many of the calls that they’ve made on her behalf seem to assume such assurances were made. She says they were not; I want...

There are many good things in this Patriot Act … but not enough. Now we have six months to get it right.

If you believe you need new laws, then come in and tell us.

We could have the scope going back to the Kennedy assassination – how many gunmen there were,

The upcoming hearings are a chance for some accountability and for some answers that have been lacking from the administration about its policies on torture and about the prison abuse scandals. There is much to...

If the defense of South Korea depends primarily on land mines, then that’s no real defense.

There are a lot of good legal thinkers who question the reasoning that went into Roe, not the result, but the reasoning, … Is this, in his mind, settled law? He is going to be...

Our federal laws do not need to reach each and every minor, inadvertent, and harmless computer abuse,

Our criminal justice system is not working as it should when innocent people are convicted of serious crimes and then spend decades — or have even reached the end of death row — before the...

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

The Judiciary Committee has been hard at work preparing for expedited hearings on this important nomination, and there is no doubt that this last-minute revelation is a hindrance to that preparation,

regrettable that they were not able to take the time to review the documents that now have been provided to the Senate.

Are you sending us a message?

This is a needlessly provocative nomination. Instead of uniting the country through his choice, the president has chosen to reward one faction of his party, at the risk of dividing the country.

At a time when the Republican Party has control of all three branches of the federal government, my worry is that the system of checks and balances may become short-circuited,

I’m hoping that the one bright light in all of this might be that this letter will give us further evidence to find out who is doing this, … You’re looking for a needle in...

Although electronic commerce is beginning to blossom, it is still in its infancy. Stability is the key to its reaching its full potential, and creating new tax categories for the Internet is exactly the wrong...

We will be going on a very fast pace. But we’re doing one that is reasonable.

It appears that the letter sent to me may contain enough spores to kill well over a 100,000 people, but it also may well have evidence, fingerprints or anything else,

We’ve given billions of dollars to the Department of Homeland Security. I voted for those billions of dollars as a member of the Appropriations Committee. We have given as many tools as they’ve asked for....

I have not reflexively opposed conservative nominees. I have drawn the line only at those nominees who are extreme … in the mold of activists,

Those papers that we have received paint a picture of John Roberts as an eager and aggressive advocate of policies that are deeply tinged with the ideology of the far right wing of his party...

It’s not fair to talk about reasons for an executive session,

We’re not trying to appoint judges, but we also feel that advise and consent does not mean appoint and rubber stamp. And we will make sure it’s a balanced judiciary.

may make us feel good, but threatens to drive off the Internet and computer networks an unimaginable amount of valuable political, artistic, scientific, health-related and other speech.

I’m probably one of the millions of Americans who were distressed when we learned your story,

Taking away our rights does not make us safer.

While we have made some progress, much is left to be done.

The balance and direction of the court are now at issue with two vacancies.

The president has said we’re not going to engage in torture under any circumstances. And so you’re asking me to answer a hypothetical that is never going to occur.

These answers do not help the Senate much in reaching an informed decision about this nomination.

For the Bush administration and Republican congressional leaders to allow the Patriot Act to expire would be irresponsible.

It’s a marked departure from existing practices and raises a wide range of legal and constitutional questions and international implications,

It’s not working when those in prison for capital and other serious crimes cannot use existing evidence for DNA tests that might have proven their innocence.

Fox News Sunday.

I don’t think a Supreme Court [nomination] hearing is a game of gotcha. I’d really like to know what he thinks.

I don’t want to know my info is being sold in some chat room in Eastern Europe because some company handled it improperly,

[But the fact is, the two often do agree–or they agree to disagree and move on.] I couldn’t be happier, unless of course we were in the majority and I was chairman, … Things move...