Making decisions on who should have command positions solely based on statistics and politics, where the outcome of the decision could result in injury or death, is contrary to sound public policy.

I want a justice who will continue to move the court forward in protecting those important civil rights.

I trust the Congress would prefer to make needed changes itself rather than have the courts do so for it.

Justice Brandeis describes privacy as the right to be left alone.

You are a hero and they now know it is Judge Sotomayor.

I do think the--need for clarity for the community as to what is appropriate conduct well beyond the litigants of a particular case is a factor where clarification is needed and should weigh heavily on whether the court takes that type of…

It's a proposal similar to a measure recently introduced by the distinguished senator from Maryland, Benjamin Cardin.

I was hoping that you could perhaps bring us up to date as to where we are in your review as to whether we can improve the way that we bring information into our data banks and share it with local law enforcement and protect the privacy…

If Iran were to become a nuclear weapons power, it would be a game-changer that would cause major impact in that region--something we cannot allow to happen.

Simply put, the current model doesn't work.

Four out of four is unacceptable.

I just want to bring that to your attention that our Subcommittee is also going to spend a good deal of effort looking at the relationship between the different agencies.