Political Quotes

“Mr. President, when they write the history of our times, I am sure that when it comes to Senate history, this is going to be a chapter, a monumental event in the history of the Senate not for the better but for the worse. After we are all long dead and gone, somebody may be looking back and trying to figure out what happened or what motivated people. I am going to tell you what has motivated me since I have been in the Senate: an understanding that the job of a Senator, when it comes to advice and consent, is not to replace my judgment for that of the President, not to nullify the election, but to be a check and balance to make sure that the President of either party nominated someone who is qualified for the job and is capable from a character point of view of being a judge for all of us, having the intellect, background, judgment, experience to carry out the duties of a Supreme Court Justice. When President Obama won the White House, I suspected that he would pick judges who I would not have chosen, based on our different philosophies of liberal-conservative jurisprudence. This is what Greg Craig, the former White House Counsel in the Obama administration, said about Elena Kagan, who is now on the Court: ``Kagan is . . . a progressive in the mold of Obama himself.'' This is what Vice President Biden's Chief of Staff Ronald Klain said about Elena Kagan: ``Elena Kagan is clearly a legal progressive . . .…”