20 Quotes by Charles Pickering

What happened to me is not that important in the scheme of things, he said. But what is happening to the judiciary is tremendously important to all Americans. So, I'm not bitter - my spirits are good. My faith has not been weakened. God's grace indeed is sufficient.

They accuse the Bush nominees of being out of the mainstream of American thought, but polls indicate clearly that the positions they (liberal special interest groups) hold are the ones that are way, way out of the mainstream of American thought.

People used to ask me if it didn't bother me that they were saying things against me that were not true. Well, it would have bothered me a lot more if it had been true. I couldn't live with myself if what they said was true.

This is a devastated area trying to get people back to work, working with companies from all over the country. But not their own companies, ... As you can imagine, that creates a lot of frustration.

This is where we're talking about federal government and rapid response. And those two normally don't go together.

I told him what he did was a heinous, reprehensible, despicable, dastardly act and that he was going to the penitentiary for it,

Dailey is definitely not a leader; he's a bully. It's his way or the highway. If you disagree with him, he attempts to intimidate rather than discuss it.

I'm sure that the mayor thought he gave you the list and that was sufficient,

I knew in advance what they were going to say about John Roberts. They were going to say that he was a threat to these rights. That he was out of the mainstream, and they said that before they had ever researched his record. Doesn't matter.