The experience with Qaddafi in Libya is heartening.

I hope you will pursue that.

The issue of exercise and diet offers the prospect for holding down health care costs.

We know you have a signing ceremony in the White House, and we will get you to the White House, also known as the 'church,' on time.

This is a low-cost method of allowing people, especially those living under repressive regimes, to access all-source, uncensored, unfiltered information.

There is knowledge that there were charges for those who had already died?

I have long believed in dialogue with Syria and Iran and have spoken about it and written about it.

So often these hearings tend to be a little sterile with witnesses testifying and not a whole lot of interaction.

I would urge you to give consideration to a policy in the Department of Justice.

I think your record is exemplary, Judge Sotomayor. Exemplary.

But the court decides all the cutting-edge questions of the day. The Senate is televised, the House is televised.

Well, wouldn't 38 cases lend a little extra support to the impact of Roe and Casey where the Court had the issue before it, could have overruled it?

C-SPAN has conducted a survey which shows that 61 percent of the American people would like to see the Supreme Court televised.

I compliment the President for nominating an Hispanic woman.

The interest that has been generated by this confirmation proceeding, encouraged by the television, shows the enormous interest that people have in what the court does.

I am going to move on--go ahead.

I think beyond doing very well on stamina, you have shown intellect and humor and charm and pride and also modesty.

I am not asking you how you would decide the case, but wouldn't you agree that the Supreme Court should have taken that kind of a major conflict on separation of powers?

My own view is that it's time we had more women and we had more diversity.

I want to return to the issue of the basic authority and responsibility of the Supreme Court to decide the major cases on separation of power.

There has been a lot of talk about a wise Latina woman, and I think that this proceeding has tended to make a mountain out of a molehill.

The current rule in the Supreme Court is that petitions for certiorari are applied and there is a so-called cert pool.

The ABA performs this function regularly with all Federal judges, and you interview a lot of people who are knowledgeable.

the Supreme Court has really reversed the order. The judiciary is now really in Article 1, if the powers were to be redefined.

We hope we get it right. But all anybody can use is their--is their best judgment.