Political Quotes

“Let me say to my friend through the Chair, there is no question that Elana Kagan is qualified--she is the dean of the No. 1 rated law school in the country, No. 1. Yale and Stanford come close, but Harvard is the No. 1 law school in the country. She is the dean of that school. But the Republicans controlled the Judiciary Committee, and they would not allow this woman to come to this floor. I would love to have had her on the floor so somebody could have filed a cloture motion. I would have loved to vote on that, but they would not even bring that nomination to the floor for a vote. They would not let it come to a vote in the committee, because this woman was eminently qualified, not only by her legal experience and her education, but by her demeanor and personal attitude toward the law. So she would have been really good for the second highest court in the land. And I say about the other person----”