make sure that every single person gets the opportunity to come before the Court and gets the opportunity to make his best case and gets a fair shake.

A full 80 percent of Americans that hear about this case just think it is a bad idea.

I do not think Justice Stevens--I am sorry, Justice Scalia or Chief Justice Roberts adhered to their own principles. I think they were legislating from the bench.

political speech is the highest form of speech under the First Amendment entitled to the greatest protection, and that the courts should be wary of Congress regulating in this area in such a way as to protect incumbents to help themselves.

another problem with Citizens United was how it was decided, because it was decided in a manner that was really unfair to the American people.

one of the glorious things about courts is they provide a level playing field in all circumstances.

As Justice Stevens said, it's about our need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government.

There is no doubt that the Roberts Court's disregard for a century of federal law, the decades of Supreme Court's own rulings, is wrong and shocking.

I think part of my job is to continue that learning experience for the American people.

Every Senator who has spoken before me has sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and so have I.

Citizens United isn't just about election law, it isn't just about campaign finance law. It's about seatbelts, it's about clean air and clean water, it's about energy policy and the rights of workers and investors, it's about health care.

I noted that for years, conservatives running for the Senate have made it almost an article of faith that they will not vote for activist judges who make law from the bench.

Justice Thurgood Marshall is one of the greatest lawyers and jurists in American history.

Justice Marshall wasn't some activist radical, rather, his views were very much in the mainstream.

the court should show 'special solicitude for the despised and disadvantaged, the people who went unprotected by every other organ of government and who had no other champion.'

I think that in these cases the Supreme Court was legislating from the bench, which is being activist.

This is a giant of the American legal system.

there is a place for judicial review in our legal system.