Make no mistake. The stakes are high for Hispanic-Americans.

We were surrounded by people making do on little. Sometimes there was desperation and despair.

When I walk into the Capitol to work every day, I often stop and think how fortunate I am as a kid from a Bronx project to make it here.

your fidelity is first and foremost to the rule of law

These were not liberal or New York or Puerto Rican or Latino values. They are American values.

We in New York are so proud of you and to your whole family, who I know are exceptionally proud to be here today to support this historic nomination.

Three decades of jurisprudence and the centrality of First Amendment freedom in our lives.

Judge Sotomayor puts rule of law above everything else.

Judge Sotomayor has stellar credentials. There's no question about that.

So who receives the calls--I mean, again, they are all referred or triaged----

the SEC, known as 'the gem of the financial regulatory world' a long time ago, and the SEC's police, your Division, the Enforcement Division, was its public face and its iron fist.