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"It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay."
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"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."
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"A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena."
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"He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications."
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"What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court."
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"There was no hostility at the court when I arrived."
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"The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline.""
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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity."
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"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."
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"I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night."
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"The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government."
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"This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades."
History
"The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do."
Conservative
"So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that's what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge."
Strategy
"We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over."
War
"Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength."
Strength
"What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive."
Anger
"We've been following Judge Alito's career over the last 15 years, while he's been on the Court of Appeals."
Career
"We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination."
Court
"If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality."
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