Political Quotes

“Let me thank the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania for her leadership. Hopefully, we have been able to share some very important thoughts. I thank her for presiding and leading us on this very important discussion. We have a Constitution. I hope that I will be holding the Constitution in my hand in a short while. Obviously, Article I is the Congress. We are to represent the people of this Nation. Article II is the executive branch. Article III are supposed to be unfettered, unbiased courts, the Federal courts. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes all over the region, all over the Nation. They are what we call Article III courts. Certainly, there are State courts, and there are county courts, and there are city courts, but the Federal courts are the place where we believe that there should be the infrastructure of justice, where I can come, where no place else, I might find justice. I can even be pro se. That means, without counsel. But the laws and the responsibility of the judges, clearly, are to make me feel that I will be receiving justice. So it saddens me, as a member of the Bar, and someone who, through law school, viewed the Federal judiciary in the highest esteem. I was an Earl Warren training fellow. Earl Warren, the Supreme Court Justice, Republican, appointed by Eisenhower, I recall, and who presided over the Brown v.…”