Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come to the floor this evening to share my thoughts on what has been an extraordinarily long, difficult, and truly painful process. As we took up the cloture motion on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the process that led us to this vote today has been, in my view, a horrible process, a gut-wrenching process, where good people--good people--have been needlessly hurt, where a woman who never sought the public spotlight was, I think, cruelly thrust into the brightest of spotlights; a good man--a good man--with sterling academic credentials, an unblemished professional record, both as the professional lawyer and judge that he was and also as a husband and father of two young girls, has been damaged--damaged terribly. As both of these individuals, Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh, have been harmed, their families have, too, and we need to, we must, do better by them. We must do better as a legislative branch. We have an obligation, a moral obligation, to do better than this. I have spent more time evaluating and considering the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh than I have any of the previous nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court that I have been privileged to review. I have had the opportunity to vote on five Justices prior to this, and I took my time. I was deliberate; I was thoughtful. Some accused me of being too deliberate, too thoughtful, taking too much time, but this is important to me.…”