Confirmation Process Quotes
- 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… — Elena Kagan
- Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder. — Zell Miller
- I write to withdraw as a nominee to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. ... I am concerned… — Harriet Miers
- There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S.… — Mario Monti
- And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee. — Stephen Breyer