If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.

America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.

One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.

People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.

I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress and the laws enacted by state legislatures.