Political Quotes

“Madam President, I was listening with interest to my good friend from Alabama, a man I work with very closely on a number of issues. But on this one, we see the world a little differently. He has made his point that Democrats held up a lot of judges and so on. I understand that. But there is no comparison. Facts are stubborn things. We need to look at the facts when it comes to voting on judges. I just wanted to share, before I talk about the highway bill, this one chart: ``Judicial Nominee Wait Times.'' These are the facts. This is not made up. These are the facts. With President Clinton, we see the wait time. With Bush, we see the wait time. Obama, we see the wait time--way over 100 days. So we are going from 10 to 20, to over 100 days. This tells the story. If people want to know why our majority leader has decided to bring up all these judges today, it is because of this. We have emergencies in some of our courts where they do not have the judges. These judges are so well qualified. We have one amazing judge awaiting to be confirmed from our Central District. I think he is about third on the list. He received a great vote out of the committee. These nominees have put their lives on hold. This may sound odd, but my favorite part of the Constitution is the preamble. I read it a lot. When I go into the schools, I talk about it to the children. We discuss what it means.…”