Jefferson Powell Quotes
I'm inclined to think my fellow Democrats are making a mistake wasting a lot of energy -- indeed, wasting any energy at all -- on these memos. 
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The department has a lively and strong sense of tradition and even if one was disposed to ignore that, it would be awfully hard to do that in the teeth of all these very smart civil servants who say 'No, this is not what we do, or this is the position the department has always taken,'
- Jefferson Powell
I am very reluctant to see internal stuff revealed except where there is some clear public reason for doing so... No one seriously thinks that Roberts is a raving lunatic, and as a pragmatic matter he is simply not going to be defeated. So neither on public nor partisan grounds do I think that my presumption of confidentiality is overcome.
- Jefferson Powell
That Roberts is a conservative Republican willing and no doubt enthusiastic to be part of Bush I, we already knew... We will not learn much else from any memo from his time at the solicitor general's office unless [improbably] a personal note from him to the attorney general was revealed.
- Jefferson Powell