In Citizens United, the Court listed at least 25 precedents dating back almost 75 years.

Do you really believe that the Constitution allows the Federal Government this much power to pick and choose who may say what, how and when about the government?

that's why the Citizens United case, I think, is a correct decision.

Now, do you believe the Constitution gives the Federal Government this much power?

It is unfortunately true that almost any meaningful campaign finance reform proposal raises constitutional issues.

The identity of the speaker is not decisive in determining whether speech is protected.

we have to have a little back and forth every once in a while or this place would be boring as hell.

President Obama called the Citizens United decision, 'a victory for powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.'

tell that to Blanch Lincoln how incumbents are protected.

what the Congress had found was that these corporations and unions had a kind of access to Congressmen, had a kind of influence over Congressmen that changed outcomes, that was a corrupting influence on Congress.

I intend to be. And you know that after 34 years.

There is no doubt in my mind that you are a liberal person.

It is OK to be liberal. It is OK to be conservative.

Today is a sad day with the passing of our great colleague Senator Robert Byrd this morning.

As America's founders designed it, the Senate's role of advice and consent is a check on the President's power to appoint.

President Clinton had strong views on this issue, and what he thought was that this procedure should be banned in all cases except where the procedure was necessary to save the life or to prevent serious health consequences to the woman.

This, of course, would be disaster.

We are talking about one of the most important positions in the world, one of nine, in the greatest court in the world.