Top Nominees Quotes
We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges.
Joe Lockhart
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
John Jay Hooker
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .
Tony Shalhoub
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.
Richard V. Allen
I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
Cate Blanchett
Orrin Hatch 
Cate Blanchett 
John Cornyn 
Tony Shalhoub 
John Jay Hooker 
Michael Beschloss 
Elena Kagan All Nominees Quotes
We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges.
Joe Lockhart 
61% of people like this quote
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
John Jay Hooker
56% of people like this quote
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .
Tony Shalhoub
53% of people like this quote
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.
Richard V. Allen
51% of people like this quote
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.
Elena Kagan
50% of people like this quote
If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.
John Cornyn
50% of people like this quote
I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
Cate Blanchett
50% of people like this quote
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.
Orrin Hatch
49% of people like this quote