He sounds like a great judge, but a lousy politician. He has no chance in my business.

What matters to me is the quality of your work, and I think you do the country a great service.

I worry about the people coming after you. Every time we have one of these hearings, it gets worse and worse and worse.

Are you aware of the fact that the radical Islamic groups are trying to recruit Americans to their cause, that they are over the internet trying to get Americans to take up jihad?

So all of us could vote because five people have said liberty means right to--the State has no interest here, compelling interest before medical viability, that we could pass all the laws we want, it does not matter because they fall.

I hope you will understand that this war is not over, that the war is coming back to our shores.

The only reason I mention that, to my good friends--and they are--who believe that America is not part of the battlefield, it sure was on 9/11.

The only real check and balance is a constitutional amendment to change the ruling.

Well, here is the concern I have. You got one word that has opened up the ability for five people to tell everybody elected in the country you cannot go there, that this is an 'off limits' in the democratic process.

It is okay to vote 'no,' but it is not okay to take legal concepts and flip them upside down.

The Nixon holding said that in the context of the specific regulations there, that a criminal trial subpoena to the President for information--in that case the tapes--could be enforced, notwithstanding the executive privilege that was…

If you want to be President, which I can understand that, it is hard.

You do not always get what you want, but you try to work with your colleagues, and many times, you can succeed.

Most Americans after this hearing will have a dimmer view of the Senate. Rightly so.

The Department of Justice for the last 45 years has taken the consistent position through Republican and Democratic administrations that a sitting President may not be indicted while in office.

United States v. Nixon is the law of the land.

This hearing is neither entertaining, nor appropriate for young people.

I would like to introduce into the record an op-ed from the L.A. Times editorial board entitled 'Can the Supreme Court Confirmation Process Ever Be Repaired?'