"I think that this Congress does not function as it should on a broad range of issues."
"I worry about what comes next for public discourse broadly."
"I think that people who have watched these hearings... know that comments like Leader Pelosi's... are absurd."
"I hope that some of the folks on the other side of the aisle... will also speak out against the kind of reckless nonsense."
"When they see a final vote... if it is not something overwhelming... we will have in this body done something to further erode the public trust."
"I submit that most people would not find it mainstream to believe a person of one ethnicity or gender would reach a better conclusion than a person of a different ethnicity or gender."
"The aspiration to impartiality is just that--an aspiration."
"The theory behind it, in short order, was to divide liberty--to divide power the better to protect liberty."
"Well said. And would it be that more who taught legal ethics, and business ethics, and medical ethics, and theological ethics, would assign their students the obituary challenge."
"The Constitution is a negative document. It is not the Government giving us freedoms."
"With Judge Gorsuch, I think the record shows that we can be confident that he will read the law as written and not legislate from the Bench."