I have colleagues today who have repeatedly asked for an FBI investigation, and there are some ironies in this.

If you have questions for Judge Kavanaugh, ask him. He is right here.

It is incredibly frustrating. In those circumstances, we look for a demon.

the fact that there is so much angst over a single nominee, a single judicial nominee, tells you everything you need to know about why it is that we need judges now more than ever who are willing to read the law and interpret it based on…

with its approval rating that ranges between 9 and 11 percent, making us slightly less popular than Raul Castro in America

If there were some perfect group of people, we would put all the power in that one body, but because we are imperfect, putting all the power in that one body would be, as Senator Klobuchar was saying, the definition of tyranny.

We are not dealing in a lawless environment here. We are dealing here with the Presidential Records Act.

It is not fair to this witness or any other witness in any other proceeding anywhere to not give the witness a copy and allow him to respond to it while he is being questioned about it.

there is no reason why it should not be something that we can discuss in public.

I do not see all discriminatory transfers are not unlawful under the Civil Rights Act.

We are judges. We do not wear a partisan label as judges.

the accumulation of all power in one body is the very definition of tyranny.

we are shirking our own responsibility because we are making lawmakers rather than laws, and we are also consolidating into one body the power to make and enforce laws, which is not only something that can lead to tyranny, it is the very…

That demon is a law of our own creation, and it is called the Presidential Records Act.

If we were angels, we would not need government.

the Presidency is not a monarchy is a very important one.

Those are Judge Kavanaugh's words. That is the man who sits before us nominated to be a Justice on the highest court of our land.

I recognize that it is politics driving these attacks, and so do the American people. They know what is at stake.