We learned in Iraq that spending lots of money quickly can end up with a lot of fraud and waste.

It might also help with the State Department to let them know exactly where their money's going, too.

USAID may not get all the glory on TV but when you get out and help the world's poorest people with global issues, clean water, child mortality, HIV, malaria, it's integral to, I think, a broader national policy, smart power.

They said, and so you then replace the judge? And then when I explained that, no, we don't...

I don't think USAID is living up to its potential.

I sincerely appreciate the fact that a person of your intellect and enthusiasm has taken on this job.

I said, yes, it happens often, and they said, and is it true that sometimes the government loses?

How many of your political appointees and other top positions are still waiting for final approval by the White House?

Well, of course, at the same time the State Department and others are going to have to bring some pressure on some of the governments to actually do the things necessary.

I think what people are going to do is say, do you share our concern about the fact that the court always seems to side with the big corporate interests against the average American.

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I'd love to see that same standard applied to you.

it's one thing to write academic papers and another thing to testify under oath.

I think of when another widely regarded law professor appeared before this Committee as a nominee, the University of Utah professor, Michael McConnell.

I strongly support this nominee.

I hate to suggest a double standard here, but I will.

I supported his nomination, and unlike now when even people come out of here unanimously and are held up month after month, week after week, he was reported favorably by this Committee and was confirmed to the Tenth Circuit by a voice vote.

I agree with the former official in the Bush administration.

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I think you are standing up for a very fundamental principle and rule of law here that does go back to John Adams and the earliest days of this Nation.

It was the Bush administration that said Guantanamo detainees have the right to counsel. This was not a decision made by the Obama administration.

I think it is fanciful thinking looking for that kind of collegiality to carry the day, so that I would hope that the ideological battleground would be recognized.

Citizens United is one hell of a jolt. It is hard to figure a jolt harder than that one on 100 years of precedent.

I believe the President ought not to be concerned about a filibuster, but ought to face squarely the fact that the Supreme Court is an ideological battleground and the lines are drawn.