Political Quotes

“Mr. President, these are the big leagues for a Senator. Depending on how long you serve here, you get only a handful of opportunities to vote on the confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice. We may know how this is going to go tomorrow, but many of us who have very serious concerns about the precedent that this confirmation creates for this country that we love are going to be here on the floor tonight--through the night--trying to implore our colleagues to think differently about this or at least think about how we can do this differently the next time around and how we can come to some common understanding as to what the rules of the game should be and what the standards should be when we are interviewing candidates for one of the most important jobs in the world, the U.S. Supreme Court. I have a few things to say here tonight, as the hour gets late. I wanted to start by talking a little bit about what the standard is. What is the standard that we should apply when we are considering a submission from the executive branch to sit on the Supreme Court? It seems to me as if this whole exercise has been conducted in a manner to suggest that, A, there is no one else eligible for the Supreme Court, other than Brett Kavanaugh, as if we live in an Adam and Eve world in which we have few, if any, alternative choices and, B, that this body owes some significant and potentially binding obligation to the President when he makes his choice.…”