Political Quotes

“I rise today to discuss the President's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Solicitor General Kagan will begin on June 28. But my consideration of her will not begin then. As so many of my colleagues, I began considering her the day her nomination was announced because I want to learn as much as I can about President Obama's choice to fill one of the most important jobs in the land, a job as a Supreme Court Justice. Even though there are many questions we all still need to ask this nominee, and we do that in the hearings, I would like to speak today on how she appears to me based on her initial job interview, the interview I had in my office, and the work that has been done so far to gather information about this nominee. After meeting with her and hearing about her, I can tell you that I am very positive about her nomination. Solicitor General Kagan is an intellectual heavyweight who brings an incredibly broad variety of legal experiences to this nomination. In so many of the legal jobs that she has had, she has been a trailblazer. In 2003 Kagan became the first woman in Harvard Law School's 186-year history to serve as dean. It is hard enough to manage lawyers, as I know from my former job as county attorney, much less manage law professors. She did it with much aplomb.…”