Political Quotes

“I rise to express my strong support for Judge Neil Gorsuch, to say that I will proudly vote in favor of his confirmation tomorrow, and to express my confidence that history will judge this nominee to be an outstanding Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. I hope he serves a long and distinguished career and believe he will. I think Justice Neil Gorsuch will turn out to be a credit to the Supreme Court, to the President who nominated him, and to the Senate that will confirm him tomorrow. It is unfortunate that we have had quite a bit of discussion about procedure and the process that has gotten us to this vote, which will take place tomorrow afternoon. I had a conversation with one of my Democratic colleagues yesterday afternoon as we were leaving the Capitol Building. This is a person with whom I have worked on issues and for whom I have great regard. I asked him how he was doing, and he said: Well, OK. I am just getting ready for the United States Senate to be forever changed. I paused for a moment, and I said: How can it be that two reasonably intelligent Senators of good will can look at the same factual situation and see it so differently? I think my colleague did agree that, indeed, the situation we have is what has led us to our proceedings today. I do believe my colleagues on the other side of the procedural issues today are people of good will who are trying to do the right thing by their country on this issue, just as I have been.…”