20 Quotes by Charles Pickering

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told Trent Lott (R-MS), and told my son this voluntarily, We're going to confirm your dad by December. The groups said, No, not so fast; so they were calling the shots, they were calling the tempo,

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

One of the ways to try to improve the confirmation process is to write and tell what it's all about, believing that if the American people are aware of things, they will take action on their own. It's part of creating an awareness of what the battle is all about.

I believe that it's going to be a tremendous fund-raiser,

Larry Kennedy would not have chosen to have ALS - none of us would. But he has accepted his diagnosis with grace and dignity and continued to live by faith.

I thought I was uncontroversial, and I thought I would just slide through. I naively told people that I was a non-controversial nominee.

We need to understand the perspective of the other race, and we need to understand that compromise is not a dirty word.

When we've got a group that's as enthusiastic as they are and that has the energy and desire to make something work, I want to make sure we tap into that, ... You don't get that kind of enthusiasm very often.

To accuse a white Southerner of being a racist is about the worst thing you can do, ... 60 Minutes.