Political Quotes

“I ask my colleague this, as he participated in the hearings and the questioning. Apparently, Ms. Kagan says she will recuse herself from participating in a number of cases--I think 11--on which she represented the government in her current job as Solicitor General. It seems that in a case such as this--the area that the President of the United States put all of his credibility and effort into forcing through this body and through the House and, in my opinion, jamming down the throats of the American people--if she is already going to recuse herself on 11 other issues, it seems to me that we should also get that sort of a commitment on this issue. As the Senator has said--and he has practiced law--recusal arises as a matter of judicial ethics. Now we are talking about the ethics of the individual involved, and the decisions that person would then make based on the position to which they are nominated.”