Patrick Leahy Quotes

This is not over competence... He certainly is competent. This is the whole issue of ideology, and if the ideology is one that you go in with a predetermined agenda? Then I don't care if they are a Democrat or a Republican, they don't belong on the Supreme Court.

- Patrick Leahy

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