19 Quotes by Manuel Miranda

The president really defeated the ogre of stealth nominations. This is a great accomplishment for the presidency.

At the end of the day, the bulk of us are with the president and with the leadership, but that's because we don't have any other place to go. We suppose they're doing the best they can, but we're all very unhappy.

Conservatives want someone with a clear, written record. The Roberts hearing has been superb as a technical, tactical matter, but it's left some people in despair and just clamoring for someone with a written record. The left keeps asking, 'What does the right know that we don't know?' Well the truth of the matter is, we don't know anything. We're all being asked to take a leap of faith.

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Delay always harms a nominee. That's the No. 1 rule of nominations, but what they could do in a week when most people are on recess, I'm not so sure.

The calls to withdraw are serious, and they're going to increase. The more that we heard from the nomination's defenders, the more people became convinced that there was no substance in the nomination and that her friends were her worst enemies.

The calls to withdraw are serious, and they're going to increase, ... The more that we heard from the nomination's defenders, the more people became convinced that there was no substance in the nomination and that her friends were her worst enemies.

The nomination of a nominee with no judicial record is a significant failure for the advisers that the White House gathered around it. However, the president deserves the benefit of a doubt, the nominee deserves the benefit of hearings, and every nominee deserves an up-or-down vote.

If he did that, he would reduce the numbers of the people who continue to support him.