Well, Mr. Gerson, you know, we've got a growing unemployment rate that may hit 10 percent.

the American people concluded rightly, I believe, last time that we were proposing a legalization scheme for people who were here illegally ... was wrong and I don't think it would have worked.

I would like to start a preemptive complaint about failure to move judges.

But in your speech I just quoted from earlier about allowing personal beliefs and policy decisions to influence how judges vote, you say that's the main reason I support President Obama.

We shouldn't be spending taxpayer dollars unless we know that it's on areas that really work.

I do believe that the legal standard and requirement of judges is that we do equal justice to all parties, based on the facts and not on personal feelings or beliefs.

I took an oath to defend, obey, and show true faith and allegiance to it.

if somebody sexually assaults a person, that is not subject to arbitration.

Nobody should serve longer in the slammer than makes sense.

one of the things that I think is healthy in this entire judicial nomination process is that key Senators are involved and that your opinions are sought.

It's good to see Congressman Davis. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney and knows something about Federal courts himself, a Harvard Law graduate.

Some people were critical of President Reagan's war on drugs and Just Say No program, but I was there.

I was rather flabbergasted when the Supreme Court declared them advisory, and still remain so.

Thank you very much. Good words, indeed.

I would just suggest to you that one of your roles may be... to take the hard issues that are necessary to keep drug use down in the country.

Even Justice Scalia can make a mistake, I think.

It's serious, dangerous business.

I truly believe that that was as much a part of the reduction in drug use by youth as anything that occurred.

It does not bother me that a nominee is a Democrat or has been elected as a Democrat or been active politically.

I'd suggest start applying them, following them.

A lot of the money that goes to Office of Justice Programs... are earmarked or directed to things other than research and development?

Some of that is due to objections from Senators from the fourth circuit to President Bush's nominees, rightly or wrongly, but some of them did not get confirmed.

Fairness in courts is essential for justice in America. It is what people expect.

We need not go back to the situation in which two defendants are in the courthouse and one is down the hall before Judge X and one before Judge Y and they get five times the sentence for the same offense.

I think we have one of the best nominees of the Clinton Administration.