My goal is to have a process... that would allow us as a Nation to hold our head up high...

What I want to tell the country is that Republicans very much do sit down and think about political picks and appointments in a political sense to try to show that we're a party that looks at all Americans and wants to give an opportunity…

The court pushed the country to do something politicians were not brave enough to do.

A lot of us feel that the best way to change society is to go to the ballot box, elect someone...

Russ Feingold and Lindsey Graham have reached the same conclusion.

the speeches really do. I mean, the speech you gave to the ACLU about foreign law--was pretty disturbing.

If Lindsey Graham said that I will make a better Senator than X because of my experience as a Caucasian male, makes me better able to represent the people of South Carolina, and my opponent was a minority, it would make national news, and…

I would have loved to have been on the other side, that your organization advocated taxpayer funded abortion and said in a brief that to deny a poor black woman Medicaid funding for an abortion was equivalent to the Dred Scott case.

I want the world to understand that America is not a bad place because we will hold al Qaeda members under a process that is fair, transparent, until they die.

It would be crazy for us to capture someone, give them adequate due process, independent judicial review, and the judges agree with the military, 'You're part of al Qaeda, you represent a danger,' and say, at a magic point in time, 'Good…

I hope you understand the difference between petitioning one's government and having a say in the electoral process.

Under the Law of Armed Conflict, do you agree with the following statement, that if a person is detained who is properly identified through accepted legal procedures under the Law of Armed Conflict as a part of the enemy force, there is no…

You cannot hold someone in domestic criminal settings indefinitely without trial.

I hope one day that there will be more women serving in elected official and judicial offices in the Mideast.

I have nothing but great admiration and respect for those men and women who serve in our judge advocate corps.

I think and believe, based on what I know about you so far, that you are broad-minded enough to understand that America is bigger than the Bronx, is bigger than South Carolina.

the way we pick our judges should be based on merit, the way we pick our firefighters

No Republican would have chosen you, Judge. That is just the way it is.

there needs to be more women and minorities in the law to make a better America.

We all now agree it is an individual right.

Your organization argued for the repeal of the death penalty because it was unfairly applied and discriminatory against minorities.

The reason these speeches matter and the reasons elections matter is because people now understand the role of the court in modern society when it comes to social change.

It makes us stronger for us to give the mastermind of 9/11 his day in court, represented by counsel, and any verdict that comes his way will not be based on prejudice or passion or religious bigotry.

to deny a low-income woman Medicaid funding, taxpayer funds to have an abortion, if you deny her that, that's a form of slavery.

the hope for the Mideast, Iraq and Afghanistan, is that there will be a courtroom one day that, if you find yourself in that court, it would be about what you allegedly did, not who you are.