I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.
I 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.
I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
It's important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem. We want you to help solve it, we want you to be involved.
Let's cause some senators distress.
Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.