No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

Graduation is not the end its the beginning.

Capital punishment is our societys recognition of the sanctity of human life.

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children families and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies commencement exercises. Graduation is not the end its the beginning.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Judges are appointed often through the political process.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.