Largely a North Korea-related problem.

I hope we give some serious consideration to at least repositioning them somewhere out of artillery range.

What is our ability to defend this country, protect our citizens if we go in in the next 2 weeks or 2 months into that country militarily and start inflicting destruction on them?

I would just say that we didn't know time was on our side when we were dealing with the Soviet Union.

If you could have found al Qaeda and prevented it, absolutely.

In Afghanistan, we helped liberate an oppressed people. And we will continue helping them secure their country, rebuild their society, and educate all their children--boys and girls.

I think we go down and start down a very dangerous path when we probe deeply into the clients and the causes that nominees have either advocated or represented.

Will you follow the law? Will you follow the Constitution? And will you follow the precedent?

I think it would have a chilling effect on the practice of law as we know it in this country.

Senator DeWine. I want to go back to the City of Boerne case and the discussion that you had with Senator Schumer a few minutes ago.

So being a dissenter is not always the worst thing in the world.

I think that is legitimate. But if we extend it to the natural consequence of that discussion and really say, no, we can't put that person on the bench because they advocated that position, I think that is a very, very serious mistake.

The Ohio Supreme Court simply is not well regarded around the country, and it's the meddling tendencies of this four-judge super-legislature that deserves most of the blame.

I thank you for your support for a ban on all human cloning and I thank you for allowing me to testify this afternoon.

this is a cost. This is a deep cost.

I think we have got some great opportunities, and we are pushing them.

It is to address things in the United States, not what is going on in other places.

It is, to me, to try to go where you can be most productive in getting the yield of the cures that you are looking for on injuries, on ALS, all these particular areas.