I trust the Congress would prefer to make needed changes itself rather than have the courts do so for it.

I agree. I think you need to take a look at all the facts and circumstances and to ignore race, you are ignoring an important fact.

Justice Brandeis describes privacy as the right to be left alone.

I look forward to working with Congress and the courts in advancing a strategy.

I believe it would be wrong for Supreme Court Justices to turn their back on landmark Court precedents protecting individual Constitutional rights.

For this reason, we need to know how our nominee might approach these issues and analyze these decisions.

I think you will find that each member of this Committee and each member of the United States Senate wants to do what is right for our country.

Each Justice can play a critical role in forming the needed consensus in our nation's highest court.

It is likely that the Supreme Court will consider important protections in our Constitution for women, our environment and consumers, as well as voting rights, privacy, and the separation of church and state.

A new Justice could and very well may have a profound impact on the direction of the court.

I am very proud of the kind of task forces that are being used in Maryland right now.

the highly sensitive nature of who these prisoners are requires that everything occur in highly classified situations because of the nature of the information involved.

I think President Obama has made an excellent choice in selecting you.

We were able to catch that sniper. That kind of cooperation continues to exist.

Each administration has been rather tepid, timid and uneven in dealing with demand.

So we have got a lot to do together, and we want to work with you to recapitalize and rebuild the Department of Justice so we can render justice in our country and have our national honor restored abroad.

They need to know that the Department of Justice is free from politics and ideology.

We see that the President has asked for more cops on the beat.