12/08/2009
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"I do not have plans to vote on my nomination."
"I was concerned about what we are beginning to see--a rise in crime--and, at the same time, a decline in sentences."
"The Solicitor General... has a duty, the Department of Justice does, to defend the laws passed by this body, by Congress."
"Well, it can fail to enforce it by setting prosecutorial policies with regard to declining to prosecute whole chunks of cases and, in effect, eliminate a statute."