Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Republican leader and I recommend that Senators proceed to the Senate floor to cast their votes. We ask that Senators be seated when they cast their votes. Decades before America's founding--when its direction was only roughly charted and its doctrines still in draft form--a lawyer from Massachusetts wrote that ours must be a nation of laws and not of men. That man, John Adams, knew that the rules and rights of a free land must withstand personal whims and political winds. It is a belief so basic Adams would later enshrine it in his State's constitution. Today we will send to our highest Court another brilliant lawyer from Massachusetts, Elena Kagan, someone whose respect for the rule of law is matched only by her appreciation for those laws that concern the daily lives of the people they govern. The roots of General Kagan's respect for the rule of law are in her respect for our separation of powers. It is a reverence she developed during her service in all three branches of government, defending the first and second amendments, strengthening our national security, and protecting children's safety. Wherever Elena Kagan has gone throughout her considerable career, she has succeeded. At Princeton and Oxford, at the law schools at Harvard and the University of Chicago and back to Harvard once again, in the private sector and in the highest levels of government, she has brought together people of every ideological stripe.…”