Mike Lee

Currently, there are 22 airports in the United States that participate in the TSA's Screening Partnership Program, or SPP.

As a member of the U.S. Senate, I'd be concerned about costs that extend farther than your agency.

Would you agree as a general matter that within the SPP, private screeners ought to be evaluated on an equal even playing field?

If you have questions for Judge Kavanaugh, ask him. He is right here.

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…

I have colleagues today who have repeatedly asked for an FBI investigation, and there are some ironies in this.

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

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

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

If we were angels, we would not need government.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

It is incredibly frustrating. In those circumstances, we look for a demon.

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…

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

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.

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

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

We are just doing what the law allows us here to do.

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