Judge Alito is one of the most accomplished and respected judges in America. And his long career in public service has given him an extraordinary breadth of experience... I urge the senate to act promptly so that an up or down vote is held before the end of this year.

Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government, and to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job …

A Haiku by GW Bush from his trip to Japan, November 16th, 2005 (pointed out by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show)[103]:

The Iranian regime is evil. They are bad. Iran is run by a paranoid club of intolerant men who think God talks to them and them only. (July 19, 2005)

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on th…

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant…

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the…