I have known him for 25 years.

It has gotten a lot easier since now you can just get a huge special interest to set up a 501(c)(4) and drop tens of millions of dollars in.

The First Amendment ends where efforts to corrupt begin, correct? You do not have a First Amendment right to corrupt your Government.

the President has tried to disgrace Starr and his office with a sustained propaganda campaign that would make Nixon blush, and he should be forced to account for that.

a President has to answer a subpoena applies equally to a trial court and a grand jury subpoena alike

When you have a judicial nominee whose name has been put forward by the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation and by someone who has been named in open court as directing other criminal activity, in the event that those criminal…

I have a number of letters that I would ask to be submitted into the record that relate to the importance of proper investigation by trained professionals.

I do not accept its legitimacy. I do not accept its validity.

Sincere and thorough investigation is critical to these claims in a prosecutor's world.

an episode that will forever stand as a dark chapter in American Presidential history.

I think this is not an offshore storm. It has made landfall when you see polling that shows that 49 percent of Americans think a corporation will get a fairer shot in the United States Supreme Court than an individual.

Gentlemen, your evaluation of the nominee related to his qualifications and produced a conclusion that he was 'well qualified'?

I want to make it absolutely clear that I do not accept the process of this committee confidential routine that we went through.

I am not willing to concede that there is any legitimacy to this entire committee confidential process in this hearing.

The separation between candidates and independent expenditures negates the possibility of corruption.

a disgraceful effort to undermine the rule of law.

I argued against them in the Supreme Court at one point.

The Roberts Five has gone on almost 80 of these partisan excursions since Roberts became Chief.

We've never seen anything like this. There is -- not that I've ever seen. I mean, when the five Republicans go off and change the law for the benefit of big Republican interests, that does leave four dismayed Democratic appointees saying…

I think there are two. One is to raise concerns about the way in which this was done and try to get more Americans interested in the fact that we're being so badly and so unprecedentedly rolled on this nominee. And the second is to lead…

Well, that seems a little bit exaggerated. I think we followed proper regular order throughout the whole committee process.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The…

I look across the Senate and see Senator McCain's desk silent, draped in black, under a vase of white roses, and it breaks my heart. I am here to say my farewell, and I have a bit of a predicament, which is that I am a very ordinary man…

I will take a minute to conclude my remarks and then yield to Senator King of Maine, who I believe will be followed by Mr. Van Hollen of Maryland. The rule we are looking at is basically about 98 percent Scott Pruitt, if you look at the…

I am very happy to join my colleagues to express our view of how pathetic this new Clean Power Plan replacement rule is and how it really makes fools of huge portions of the American people. For farmers who are out there facing drought and…