Mike Lee

I am deeply sympathetic to the frustration people feel when they do not have access to documents they want.

We are not dealing in a lawless environment here. We are dealing here with the Presidential Records Act.

It is not fair to this witness or any other witness in any other proceeding anywhere to not give the witness a copy and allow him to respond to it while he is being questioned about it.

There is no reason why it should not be something that we can discuss in public.

I do not see all discriminatory transfers are not unlawful under the Civil Rights Act.

We are judges. We do not wear a partisan label as judges.

I think that all maybe stems from the same philosophical understanding that we are imperfect beings, and that we divide power, and that we make sure that no one person in a jury situation or other situations where our liberty can be…

If there were some perfect group of people, we would put all the power in that one body, but because we are imperfect, putting all the power in that one body would be, as Senator Klobuchar was saying, the definition of tyranny.

If we were angels, we would not need government.

The accumulation of all power in one body is the very definition of tyranny.

The Presidency is not a monarchy is a very important one.

We are shirking our own responsibility because we are making lawmakers rather than laws, and we are also consolidating into one body the power to make and enforce laws, which is not only something that can lead to tyranny, it is the very…

With its approval rating that ranges between 9 and 11 percent, making us slightly less popular than Raul Castro in America

Those are Judge Kavanaugh's words. That is the man who sits before us nominated to be a Justice on the highest court of our land.

Judge Kavanaugh understands and is focused on the principle that a judge is a servant of the law, not a maker of it.

I recognize that it is politics driving these attacks, and so do the American people. They know what is at stake.

The Supreme Court is increasingly a substitute political battleground in America.

The legislature is impotent, the legislature is weak, and most people here want their jobs more than they really want to do legislative work.

In our system, the legislative branch is supposed to be the center of our politics.

If they are just politicians, then the people should have power, and they should not have lifetime appointments.

The hysteria around Supreme Court confirmation hearings is coming from the fact that we have a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the Supreme Court in American life now.

These principles apply. They are principles to which we have sworn an oath, and they are principles that I think we would do well to restore and focus on once again.

We need to restore a discussion of civics in this country, to restore a discussion about federalism and separation of powers, about where power is concentrated and where it should not be, and what the role of each branch of the Federal…

The fact that there is so much angst over a single nominee, a single judicial nominee, tells you everything you need to know about why it is that we need judges now more than ever who are willing to read the law and interpret it based on…

I worry that we're neither being transparent nor efficient in our utilization of the government's set-aside spectrum.