Conferences Quote by Dahlia Lithwick

I remember George Mitchell - I was doing the Clarence Thomas hearing, and there were 48 senators declared they were not prepared to vote…

— Joe Biden

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

— Theresa May

I think it's awfully difficult on the most important issues of the day... to remain silent, particularly when you've won a statewide election.

— Michael Capuano

It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he…

— Arlen Specter

With all the surgical skill and the vital rays lavished on him he should talk like alike a congressman at a filibuster.

— Kenneth Langtry

I will always support a vote. The constitution gives the president the right to appoint justices with the advice and consent of the Senate.…

— Ron Crumpton

I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but…

— Will Rogers

“What would she say if she could hear this speech? Then it was done, and he was our President. “That was some weird shit,”…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.

— Boris Marshalov

Holding Congressional hearings is the purview of the majority, and during the first years of the Obama administration, Democrats could not be bothered.

— Matt Gaetz