Senate Majority Leader Bill First (R-TN), on the Senate’s Vote to Confirm Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the Federal Bench:

“Today, principle has won a victory over partisan judicial obstruction.  After almost two years, the Senate has finally given Janice Rogers Brown the respect and the up or down vote that she deserves.  With the confirmation last week of Justice Owen and today’s confirmation of Justice Brown, we continue to make progress on the principle of up or down votes.  I hope we can continue working together to do our constitutional duty as Senators and give other judicial nominees the fair up or down votes they deserve.”

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), on the Implications of the Senate’s Confirmations of Justices Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owen:

"Despite more than four years of heated rhetoric and mischaracterizations of their records, up-or-down votes on Justices Owen and Brown did not result in the sky falling, or the end of the minority party’s free speech rights. The same will be true when we vote on the president’s other well-qualified nominees to the federal bench -- and we will."

Columnist Ryan Sager, on the Motivation Behind Campaign Finance Advocates’ Push to Regulate the Internet:

"The Internet resembles in many ways the campaign-finance reformers' long-sought utopia: full public financing of political campaigns. …  For an absolute pittance, every idea, every political philosophy, every candidate has access to a soap box. The only limitation is how many people care to listen. Why, when the free market has gone and created the exact state of affairs the reformers have long claimed to desire, are the McCains of the world looking to crack down? Because the reform movement has never been about freedom. It has always been about control.”

Representative Henry Hyde (R-IL), Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, Arguing in Support of His Proposal to Cut U.S. Payments to the U.N. by Half Until the World Body Implements Reforms:

“If you're going to reform something, reform it. If you really believe it will kill the United Nations to make it accountable, let's say so today."

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, on the Media’s Tendency to Report Bad News from His Nation While Ignoring Good News:

“Sometimes -- rather often -- neither our press, nor your press, nor the press in the rest of the world will pick up the miseries of the Afghans three years ago and what has been achieved since then."

Dennis Reilly, Science Advisor to the U.S. Naval Fire Support Association, Opposing the Navy’s Plan to Strike the USS Iowa and Wisconsin, America’s Last Two Battleships, from the Navy Register and Convert Them to Museums:

“Reactivate the battleships now. Would you rather have a museum or a live Marine?”

Late Night Talk Show Host Jay Leno, on Concerns About Security on the Canadian Border:

“Up at the Canadian border -- did you hear about this? This crazed man, a crazed guy crosses into Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles, and a chainsaw stained with blood. It was Howard Dean."

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