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I'm a gun owner.
I'm an old trial lawyer.
Our nation relies on immigrants.
Judiciary is where my passion is.
Trump would either be the Scarecrow or the Joker.
The court that serves America should reflect America.
A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.
The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
I'm not in good enough shape to be Batman. I'll just be Bruce Wayne.
The American people deserve to have a fully functioning Supreme Court.
I relax more when I'm behind the camera than anything else. I love that.
We've won wars before and we've certainly retained our rights as Americans.
Seeking equal protection under our laws for the LGBT community is the right thing to do.
The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.
I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.
If the United States is to be a beacon of hope around the world, our actions have to match our ideals.
I don't want somebody as attorney general who thinks he has to rubberstamp whatever the president says.
It is wrong for the federal government to deny benefits or privileges to couples who have lawfully wed.
When I first came to the Senate, people in both parties went out of their way to have personal relationships.
I look forward to the time when the membership of the Supreme Court's more reflective of the country it serves.
Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He has to use his brain and his courage. That's what always appealed to me.
Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
The Supreme Court of the United States is too important to our democracy for it to be understaffed for partisan reasons.
Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.
Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone.
A Grateful Dead concert is much more than the music: it's an experience, almost like being in a family of thousands of people.
Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.
In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.
At first glance, there's a lot of sex on the Internet. Or not at first glance: nobody can find anything on the Internet at first glance.
About the only gun law we have in Vermont is during deer season. If you have a semi-automatic, you can't have more than six rounds in it.
The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.
I intend to have protections for the L.G.B.T. community in there. I'm not going to make choices between that community and the non-L.G.B.T. community.
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
A bedrock principle of our justice system is ensuring a fair day in court, something that is especially important for children who cannot advocate for themselves.
The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction.
The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above the Supreme Court.
A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.
Benjamin Franklin once said, 'A people who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.' I think we can have both. We can keep our liberties. We can have our security.
We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
Contrary to what some believe, taking all reasonable and feasible precautions to protect civilians - and mitigating the resulting anger when we harm them - does not need to impede military operations.
The last thing our founding fathers wanted was to be ruled by king with absolute power, and the next to the last thing they wanted was to be ruled by a temporary king with absolute powers for four years.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor serves as a model Supreme Court justice, widely recognized as a jurist with practical values, a sense of the consequences of the legal decisions being made by the Supreme Court.
Her [Jurdge Sandra Day O'Connor] judgment has also been critical in protecting our environmental rights. She joined in 5-4 majorities affirming reproductive freedom and religious freedom and the Voting Rights Act.
Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been a guardian of the protections the Constitution provides the American people. She's come to provide balance and a check on government intrusion into our personal privacy and freedoms.
Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] rejected the [George] Bush administration's claim that it could indefinitely detain a United States citizen. She upheld the fundamental principle of judicial review over the exercise of government power.
The FBI wanted us to introduce the 1994 Digital Telephony bill today and I said absolutely not. They have to understand they have a Vermonter as the Chairman Of the Technology and Law committee and that we Vermonters respect our privacy.