I did not vote for President Obama, but he won in spite of my opposition.

If you do not agree with my basis view of the world, I cannot vote for you.

the nomination process to a place it was never intended to go by the Framers of the Constitution

It would be news to the families who have lost a loved one in this fight. So I think we are at war.

At the end of the day, the Detainee Treatment Act codified how we treat enemy combatants in a time of war.

I was in the camp that we are at war, and, in past wars, you do not give enemy prisoners lawyers.

And there was a crosscurrent here.

I have seen him in action in very complicated, emotional matters, where you had one group of people who could give a damn about the terrorist and another group of people that wanted to criminalize what I thought was a real-world fight.

I think politics has changed. I think it has changed in a fashion that we should all be ashamed of as Senators.

five people can be wrong.

Every person is allowed to come to court to bring whatever claim they have.

I would like to get out of that club.

I am going to make the argument that there is a compelling state interest at that stage of the pregnancy to protect the child against death that is going to be excruciatingly painful.

If you start waterboarding people, you may get impeached.

Any lawyer, I think, who understands this area of the law would suggest the President is stronger when he has congressional support.

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court struck down my proposal, and we fixed it later with a huge bipartisan vote.

So, traditionally, is it the Commander-in-Chief's job to determine who the enemy force is?

I have always been in the camp that I do not want to be like them.