Nominee Quotes

You've being less forthcoming with this Committee than any nominee who has ever come before us. - Charles Schumer

You're always surprised. Even people who were considered locks for a nomination were surprised. This year, there are so many first-time nominees, 14 out of the 20 in the acting categories, I believe. I'm sure it was overwhelming for everybody, but I definitely was surprised. - Amy Adams

You know what the answer is. It's the same as Ginsburg said, it's the same as Breyer said, it's the same as Roberts said. It's just not appropriate to ask a nominee how they're going to vote on a particular matter. - Daniel R. Coats

You can't have a campaign for a nominee based on whispers and winks. - Charles Schumer

You can be sure this will be cited in future years when other Cabinet nominees are not confirmed. Once you break the taboo, it's broken for all time. - Larry Sabato

With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'. - Barbara Boxer

With life expectancy these days, he could be a Supreme Court justice for seven or eight or nine presidential terms. That's why we have to take these nominees so seriously - because they're going to have a dramatic impact on the daily lives of all of us, all Americans and our children and our grandchildren. - Ralph Neas

With approximately 100 days left to go before the voters have their say, we are making the key investments necessary to ensure that Joe Lieberman will be the Democratic nominee in 2004. - Craig Smith

With a president who believes that he has the kind of executive power he thinks he has -- which is wrong, by the way -- that marriage to a Supreme Court nominee who believes in broad, expansive power is extremely dangerous to our system of government. The most important thing is for the will of the American people to do something about (poverty). I think it's there. What's missing is leadership. - John Edwards