"I think the Supreme Court has been absolutely clear in this particular area, the welfare rights area, that there is that danger that judges, unelected and unaccountable, based on their own conceptions..."
"Well, you know, you mentioned a while ago, pretty easily, I thought, on the question of privacy. You said that, well, privacy is what society says it is, basically, and how do you find that?"
"The U.S. Department of the Interior has never possessed the power to designate wilderness. That power has always been reserved and is always exercised exclusively by Congress."
"As you know two-thirds of my State, the State of Utah is owned by the Federal Government."
"every lesson that we've taught to the North Koreans over the last 10 years is that they'd be much better served by relying on a nuclear deterrent than on our good word."
"Thank you, Senators Kerry and Lugar for your leadership in discussing the volatile situation in North Korea."
"Has the administration taken a close look at this, including on whether and to what extent FERC has authority to issue this and what the effect might be on customers?"
"I think it is important that we do this as Senators because I believe that among the founding generation, the Founding Fathers, there was no understanding that was more ubiquitous than the idea that w..."
"We have to make a number of these decisions on our own regardless of whether the courts are going to do them for us."
"wouldn't it also be within Congress' power to tell every American... that we must eat four servings of green leafy vegetables each day?"
"if this law is upheld, if this law is within Congress' limited power to regulate commerce among the States..."
"the powers of the Federal Government are few and defined, whereas those reserved to the States are numerous and indefinite."