Political Quotes

“I think this issue of temperament--and I am going to pose a question to my colleague from Washington--is fundamental to our system of justice in this country. Courtrooms are sometimes really emotional places, and sometimes they are angry places. The function of the judge is to remove the emotion and the anger, to be impartial and balanced and even keeled. So for a judge on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to engage in the kind of angry outburst--it was not spontaneous; it was not the result of some accusation in the moment. It was calculated. It was premeditated. It was written the day before. It was inexcusable and unacceptable. I will ask my colleague from the State of Washington, since she is not a lawyer, perhaps to her credit: If the Senator were appearing in a courtroom with Judge Kavanaugh, wouldn't the Senator ask that he step away from the case, that he recuse himself in light of what he has said about all Democrats, about vast classes of people--this anger that he has expressed?”