Political Quotes

“I rise this afternoon to share with you and our colleagues some of my thoughts concerning the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of these United States. I believe it was Winston Churchill who once said these words: ``The further back we look, the further forward we see.'' So let me begin today by looking back in time--way back in time. More than 230 years ago, during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, just up the road from my family's home in Wilmington, DE, our Founders debated at great length on how to create a different kind of government--an experiment, if you will, in which a nation's citizens would elect their own leaders, and a system of checks and balances would ensure that country would never--never--be led by a tyrant. Among the most contentious issues they debated during that summer of 1787 in the City of Brotherly Love was the creation of a Federal judiciary. Our Founders disagreed, oftentimes strongly, about what our judicial system should look like and how judges should be selected: Who would nominate them? Who would confirm them? Would they serve one term, multiple terms, or would their appointments be lifetime in nature? When the Framers appeared to be hopelessly deadlocked, members of the clergy were brought in to pray that God would provide the leaders with the wisdom to break the impasse.…”