"The Supreme Court needs to do its job; it needs to issue signed opinions, not the shadow docket."
"It opened the ballot box to millions and millions of Americans and it became regarded as the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement."
"We have an obligation to preserve them and my hope is that your nomination will help us do so."
"I do not know what Congress meant to do in this kind of situation, because this law was written at a time when none of this stuff now existed."
"Access to the courts should be available to everyone."
"There are a lot of people who are book-smart. There are not as many people who are person-smart, and you are both."
"I think we have an obligation in the Congress to set forth a code of ethics."
"Historic is a word often overused in this place where a lot of history is made but today seems, truly, to merit it."
"You will make the Court look more like America but also think more like America."
"I look forward, as I hope many of us do, to a bipartisan majority in support of your candidacy."
"I feel very strongly--I know that a number of us on the Committee agree--that more transparency, more visibility is important for the public to understand what goes on in the courtroom."