Political Quotes

“there is a legend about a woman who finds an injured snake by the side of the path, and she picks it up to take care of it. She brings it home. She cares for it. She feeds it. She nurtures it. It heals. She takes it back to put it back into where she found it. And as she does so, it bites her. And as its venom goes through her veins and she is dying, she asks the snake: Why did you bite me? I cared for you. I fed you. I nurtured you. I saved your life when you were wounded. And the snake said: It is my nature. You knew that when you saved me. For many of us, to our colleagues, this is a ``mark my words'' moment about an individual who will continue to disgrace himself and the rule of law if we put him on the bench. We know that because, in 6 short months at the Department of Justice, he has been involved in three significant instances of prosecutorial misconduct--not little technical violations of a rule but truly grotesque abuse of a prosecutor's powers. Not long ago, my Republican colleagues would have prevented even the nomination of a character like this, somebody with a lawless character for the bench. The mad dash to jam through this nominee, first in the Judiciary Committee and now on the floor of the U.S. Senate, is a new low for the way this body handles its responsibility to vet these lifetime appointments.”