But fundamentally I think it is not activism to reverse a bad decision, and the Court should do that.

Now, some may fear that in the future, an activist Supreme Court may overturn these landmark decisions.

Your former colleague at the University of Chicago, Richard Epstein, said, 'Any constitutional doctrine that stood in the way of the comprehensive social or economic reforms'... had to be rejected or circumvented.

I do not deny that you value the military. I really do not.

We're going to do that crack cocaine thing.

I could not agree more. I am afraid that is so, and it has not gone away, like some justices thought, and it is still with us.

It is certainly not going to help, sir.

the law was never not in force.

I believe that is a dangerous philosophy. I believe that is a philosophy not justified by any judge on the Court.

I felt your book on terrorism was a sea or an island of insanity maybe and a sea of some hysteria around.

He believed there were two great Senates--the Roman Senate and the American Senate--and he wanted ours to be the greatest ever.

Ms. Kagan has less real legal experience of any nominee in at least 50 years.

I hope that you can feel free to tell us precisely how you think so we can evaluate what you might be like on the bench.

I learned so much more in the practice of law about how this magnificent, beautiful system operates than I did in law school.

Your service to the country and to protect the Constitution is not valued by these institutions.

I thank our military witnesses for, with clarity, stating the true facts of what happened at Harvard.

I would offer, for the record, a recent op-ed or article on National Review Online concerning General Kagan's abortion history or analysis of that.

She was a leader, she was a driving force in the effort to remove the military from full and equal access.

I think it's clear with regard to the New START treaty that this treaty will not be ratified unless we have confidence that we have a plan in place to maintain and modernize and replace, if needed, our nuclear weapons.

They objected to that.

I am uneasy about that. The protestations from the administration notwithstanding.

I am uneasy about it.

I remain of the view that we have been too anxious to obtain this treaty, which is not the most important thing we need to be doing at this time to deal with the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

I hope that is true.

Why shouldn't we conclude in Congress that as part of your negotiations with Russia, who have consistently objected to the deployment of these kind of missiles, why shouldn't we conclude that you have, indeed, conceded an important…