"I am concerned because there is evidence that Mr. Miranda provided you with materials that were stolen from me."
"But when I have opposed one, like with Judge Owen, when I was raising some varied questions about funding that she was getting from people that were before her court, that might have raised a red flag..."
"Did my staff ever send you confidential material from Senator Hatch that was stolen from his emails?"
"Two days before the hearing, he told you that the Democrats were passing around a related '60 Minutes' story."
"These Republican staffers stole 4,670 files, and they used them to assist in getting President Bush's most controversial judicial nominees confirmed."
"In a way, it was considered by many, both Republicans and Democrats, as a digital Watergate."
"This is the most incomplete, most partisan, least transparent vetting for any Supreme Court nominee I have ever seen."
"I represented Vermont here for 44 years. I served with pride here, believing that the Senate can be and should be the conscience of the Nation."
"Such a move is simply incompatible with transparency."
"It seems that you may have intrigued him for another reason, your expansive view of Executive power and Executive immunity."
"You should be sitting in front of us only after we have completed a review of your record."