Patrick Leahy actually said...

"If you are confirmed, as I fully expect you will be, will you work with us members, both Republicans and Democrats, work with us on trying to resolve the final issues in the patent reform legislation?"

"Send us the best. That is all we want. Send us the best."

"the courts are--and they were set up this way by the founders of the country--they are the one undemocratic part of our government."

"We tried very hard to have judges looked at as judges and to get out of partisan politics."