"A wall of this magnitude will be a scar in our landscape."
"A concentrated market does reduce competition and puts control in the hands of only a few powerful players."
"Regrettably, the Senate leadership is returning again and again to using constitutional amendments as election-year rallying cries to excite the passion of voters. That's wrong."
"Now, are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with al Qaeda? If that's the case, we've really failed in any kind of a war on terror."
"It's almost like a bomb went off and that's nearly five months after the storm."
"Senate Democrats are pushing to delay a vote on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, whose confirmation hearings wrapped up today."
"I wonder whether he was one Samuel Alito in the 1980s, a different one today, whether he's running away from his record."
"I can't find anyone who thinks the so-called data-mining aspect of the secret surveillance program is legal."
"We are a democracy. Let's have checks and balances, not secret orders and secret courts."
"The new documents showed Alito to be an eager and early partisan in the ranks of ideological activists in his party's extreme right wing."
"No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court."