John Conyers actually said...

"Nothing that I have seen to date demonstrates a need to curtail the limited judicial discretion that Booker restored."

"This is an important discussion and I am glad we have a variety of former lawyers, prosecutor and others thrown in here--judges."

"The attack on judicial discretion suggests that Congress, or the Commission, who know nothing about the offense or the circumstances surrounding it, or prosecutors, who play an adversarial role in adm..."

"The racial factor in the American criminal justice system, which is pretty critical and is still pretty large."