For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.
Fred ThompsonI'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.
Fred ThompsonI think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.
Fred Thompson