Political Quotes

“I want to make the point to the Senator from Texas, and others who have problems with this, that you are talking about real people when you stand here late at night and object. Sometimes we forget that. I think Senator Wellstone was very real last night when he came back and he was on the phone ready to tell this particular nominee that all was well. I happen to know two judges on that list from California. Their lives are on hold. They are human beings, just as we are. Many have been waiting for months and months. I say to the majority leader, please, do all you can, because pretty soon we are going to come down here with photographs of the families that are in limbo. They don't know. Some of them are closing other practices up. It is a hardship on the families. These are wonderful people. These are people who came out of those committees, many of them without one objection. These are people who have support of both Senators, in many cases, Republican and Democrat alike. So we really changed course here when many of us understood it was going to go a certain way. It is very hard, I think, on the people whose lives are affected, their children and their spouses. So I hope we can work together for the good of, frankly, these people and their families and the criminal justice system. I don't think it does any good to have these judgeships vacant.”