will touch on the Microsoft situation but more broadly on how best to promote competition on the Internet.

We are planning on having Thanksgiving in Washington,

I think it is time that Republicans and Democrats, using the Judiciary Committee, do an overall look at the FBI, an in-depth look,

I believe there was a terribly misguided effort to protect children from what some prosecutors somewhere in this country might consider offensive or indecent online material, … The Communications Decency Act tramples on the free...

reputation for being loyal to this president.

I told you publicly I was leaning against all witnesses and in the spirit of fair play I’m now telling you publicly I’m leaning for it.

There is a significant amount of undiscovered oil in northern Afghanistan.

This is the only chance the American people, all the American people, have to see what he is, … It is the only chance, no matter what part of the country you are from, no...

I don’t believe in Democrats now seeking revenge, and I will not be part of that, … will not be a pushover hearing.

Fear mongering and false choices do little to advance either the security or liberty of Americans.

We’re working hard to carry out our responsibilities, not have this thing taken by winks and nods and quiet promises over conference calls. We’d actually like to know what the heck is going on.

Through a variety of good-faith steps that Senate Democrats have taken, the judicial nominations process today is markedly faster and fairer than it has been,

If you’re going to fix a broken system, it’s going to require cooperation by the states, by the federal government, … catalyst for the reforms that have to happen in the state capitals where most...

We’re not going to do a third do-over.

The Senate’s advice and consent responsibility takes on an added dimension.

of an extreme nature.

I think that the president this time wants us to suggest some names. I think with the four of us who are there, he may well get some response of what we think about those...

She went through a chronology, point by point by point,

The rest of America, including the Senate, deserves to know what he and the White House know.

The President and Vice-President have been consistent alright-consistently wrong. There is no value in that.

more of an inquisition than an oversight hearing.

gave the wrong impression to the rest of the world.

an eager and early partisan in the ranks of ideological activists in his party’s extreme right wing.

It’s sort of an unprecedented thing to have to send a questionnaire back,

I will make up my mind how to vote for or against Judge Roberts based on Judge Roberts , … And then I’ll take each one as they come along.

when some of the most controversial surveillance powers in the act operate under a cloak of secrecy.

You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions

like Jack the Ripper calling for more neighborhood patrols because of the surge in victims.

The bureau lives sometimes as an isolated area where they forget that they’re responsible to the attorney general and they’re responsible to the Congress,

When people look at that, [they] say, ‘What are you talking about? This little boy should be back with his father.’ That’s why there are no hearings.

I don’t vote for somebody unless I have enough answers to justify in my mind voting for them,

These outside lobbying groups, whether on the right or the left, have become, for me anyway, basically irrelevant.

If we were to allow them in, there’s a good chance we would get those diseases.

I can honestly say I am going into this with a completely open mind, … I have no idea how I’m going to vote.

You’re innocent until proven guilty. And you do not under any circumstances — you do not, do not — say that somebody has to come before whatever the tribunal is and prove they’re innocent.

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

No Supreme Court nomination should be conducted with winks and nods,

Whether I agree or disagree with the opinion of the Supreme Court, it will be the ultimate law of the land and I will work to uphold it, … All of us hope that we’re...

If there’s a crisis at 2 o’clock in the afternoon or 2 o’clock in the morning, I don’t want a president who’s asked ‘What do we do now?’ say, ‘Wait a minute, I’ll call up...

the necessary independence from partisan factions.

I am appalled at their audacious disregard for the health of the American people, … It is time to put people first, and to stop letting the big polluters and the special interests write the...

There were 50 or 60 of President Clinton’s (nominations) that were never even given a hearing or a vote. They just never went forward. It wasn’t a question of whether they had a vote for...

I do not intend to lend my support to an effort by this president to move the Supreme Court and the law radically to the right.

This may be one of the better clues that we have, and I’m in no hurry for them to get it opened, if it will help them get more clues.

In the Reagan administration, in his earlier work, he seemed to try to out-conservative some of the conservatives on issues involving gender discrimination, environmental matters, and individual rights versus the government, … What I’m interested...

When terrorists strike, first responders are the first people we turn to.

This man is a war criminal, … He is an international war criminal. He’s violated virtually every norm of international law and, if we are going to make international law have an effect, if we...

The amount we have requested from the president just meets immediate needs, which are clearly spelled out in a recent report from the National Guard Bureau,

one man, one vote.

If she does a good job on the questionnaire, I think it puts her in good stead for the hearing.