"As America's founders designed it, the Senate's role of advice and consent is a check on the President's power to appoint."
"Do you really believe that the Constitution allows the Federal Government this much power to pick and choose who may say what, how and when about the government?"
"that's why the Citizens United case, I think, is a correct decision."
"Now, do you believe the Constitution gives the Federal Government this much power?"
"It is unfortunately true that almost any meaningful campaign finance reform proposal raises constitutional issues."
"The identity of the speaker is not decisive in determining whether speech is protected."
"we have to have a little back and forth every once in a while or this place would be boring as hell."
"it would be a disaster"
"Well, I'll tell you, this bothers me a lot, because I know that there were plenty of doctors in ACOG who did not believe that partial birth abortion was an essential procedure and who believed that it..."
"the only thing that was at issue was essentially the sponsoring organizations, whether it was the Office of Career Services, or instead the Student Veterans Organization."
"President Clinton had strong views on this issue, and what he thought was that this procedure should be banned in all cases except where the procedure was necessary to save the life or to prevent seri..."