Political Quotes

“I will yield when I am finished. One conservative former prosecutor called Senator Hawley's charges ``meritless to the point of demagoguery.'' I have read so many reviews of the Senator's charges against this judicial nominee, and not one of them gives him any credence. They basically say: What you are dealing with here is a complicated area of the law, a controversial area of the law, and to try to ascribe to this one nominee these motives, these outcomes, is baseless and meritless. Consider this: How can this judicial nominee possibly have the endorsement of the largest law enforcement organization in America--the Fraternal Order of Police--the endorsement of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and many other law enforcement groups--how could she possibly have all of that and be as wrong on a critical issue as the Senator from Missouri has asserted? How is it possible that the American Bar Association took a look at all of her contacts as a judge, as a lawyer, as a law student and came up with 250 individuals who knew her personally, appeared in court with and against her, judged her in her individual capacity as a lawyer--how can the American Bar Association interview those 250 and find no evidence of the charges that have been made by the Senator from Missouri? How is it possible that they would review all of this and miss such a glaring fact? They didn't. They told us, under oath, that they were asked point blank: Is her sentencing standard soft on crime?…”