Charles Pickering People Quotations

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

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

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.