My concern is that this sort of activity is throughout the system, and that is what I was referencing.

Let me commend you on that, because as you understood--as we understood--trying to sort out the lines and create different agencies, to do different things--what we tried to do is basically take the existing structure and make it cooperate…

We certainly owe, as a minimum, fair dealing in the marketplace.

Can you give us the assurance that these derivatives rules are at the very top of your list to get done very quickly?

It is absolutely the case, Senator.

I suggest we all have to move faster.

I have had a chance, having served here for a few years, to interview a lot of people aspiring to the Federal bench.

It is a challenge to us on this side as it is to those on your side of the table to restore that sense of justice and feeling of fairness in our courts across America.

I have no choice. He went to jail for something he had not done.

It is one of those eye-opening moments when you say I wonder if there is a good bill out there somewhere.

I went back to my State of Illinois, which is very diverse in terms of manufacturers and universities and inventors and so forth, and I was determined to make sure that whatever I did met with their approval because I think it is an…

Thank you, Judge.

I think it is important to make sure that judge's hands are not handcuffed and that the judge does have discretion in those situations to give the appropriate sentence.

I thank my colleague, Senator Kirk, for signing a blue slip signaling his support for that nomination.

What is your definition of patent troll and do you see this as a problem?

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

As Congress considers potential changes to the patent system that threaten the constitutionally guaranteed property rights of innovators, it must assess the full affects of the AIA.

Thanks, Senator Cornyn.