Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise today to support the nomination of Professor Goodwin Liu's nomination to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Very simply, America deserves and needs the best of our legal profession on the bench, the best Americans on the bench. Goodwin Liu is an extraordinary American and an exceptional lawyer, and he will serve with distinction on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals if he is confirmed by the Senate, as I urge he should be. He is qualified by reason not only of his remarkable intellect but also his professional experience, his life experiences, which are important to anyone who serves on the Federal bench. As demonstrating his intellect, he graduated with honors from Stanford University in 1991. He was a Rhodes scholar, graduating with honors also from Oxford. He then went to the Yale Law School, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal, and clerked for two distinguished Federal judges, including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He has been a professor and a dean at the University of California- Berkeley School of Law. He has worked in private practice, including serving as a special assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Education. But his life has been about public service. Indeed, he served for 2 years at the Corporation for National Service, helping to begin the AmeriCorps National Service Program.…”