This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

It's gonna be one of the great achievements of this administration.

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

Barack and I see a future... where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.

I agree with Donna Brazile who said about Benghazi: "We got to preven dis from hapinin agen. "

I remember George Mitchell - I was doing the Clarence Thomas hearing, and there were 48 senators declared they were not prepared to vote for him at the front end. We could have filibustered that and stopped it. George and I - George was the leader at the time - took the heat from every liberal group saying, "No, no, that's not the way the system is supposed to work, since the Constitution - the president shall propose and the Constitution shall dispose, we're going to let them hear this."

You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.