I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is right and wrong, but to say what the law is, rather than what they personally think the law ought to be.

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution constrains judges every bit as much as it constrains we legislators, executives and citizens in their actions.

I don't like to see facts twisted, untruths fabricated to give the [Supreme Court] nominee a black eye, even before he comes before Senate committee.