The National Rifle Association essentially has dominion over Congress with respect to everything that has to do with guns.

No one told you that you would be the first Supreme Court nominee to assert executive privilege to limit the access to 100,000 documents relating to your service in the White House?

I believe the nomination of a judge through all of this, who so powerfully speaks to a President's de facto immunity from ongoing investigation prosecution, will shake the faith that millions and millions of Americans have in the fairness…

I believe you have repeatedly and enthusiastically embraced an interpretation of Presidential power so expansive that it could result in a dangerously unaccountable President.

No one is above the law.

If you are in that seat, sir, because the White House has big expectations that you will protect the President from the due process of law, that should give every Senator pause.

I am not going to take any more time because I have burned it all already.

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

If you are confirmed after this truncated and concealed process, there will always be an asterisk after your name, 'appointed by a President named as an unindicted co-conspirator after the vast majority of documents relating to the most…

the unitary theory of the executive is so worrisome

There will be, as I mentioned, all of these cases that will put barriers--that would put barriers before a woman's right to choose.

When Justice Kennedy announced his retirement, I once again called the White House and urged, through White House Counsel, that President Trump consider selecting someone for this seat who could win broad support from both sides of the…

In the Bush White House, you coached judicial nominees to just tell Senators that they have 'a commitment to follow Supreme Court precedent, that they will adhere to statutory text, that they have on ideological agenda.' Fairy tales.

No one, no one should face harassment, death threats, and disparaging comments by cheap-shot politicians simply for telling the truth.

Such a blanket assertion of executive privilege is simply unheard of in the history of this country, and the reason it is unheard of is because it is so outrageous.

when books are being written about how democracy dies, when fear of authoritarian rule and the expansion of the executive branch is rampant in this country

Who is this man? By what authority could he possibly be denying to the American people information about a man who is seeking a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land?

I have no idea how that stamp, 'committee confidential,' got on these documents.

the way you are being presented to the American people, with only 10 percent of the public documentation that could be provided to this Committee, it is going to reflect on you and your nomination.

He gave me a book when we met, a biography of Frank Johnson.

I do not think the staff secretary to the United States President is a file clerk.

Rules of common sense.

I welcome any kind of investigation.

You turned this case into a parental consent case, which it was not.

If there is no truth to her charges, the FBI investigation will show that.