Orrin Hatch Chief Quotations

The position that you have been nominated for is chief justice of the United States. Do you plan to use that role as a bully pulpit to encourage members of the bar to take seriously their responsibility to undertake pro bono work as you have done throughout your legal career?

I think this vote is part of a long practice, ever since the confirmation battle over Justice Rehnquist to become chief justice, where Republican nominees have been treated in a despicable fashion.

Although the attorney general is, of course, the federal government's chief law enforcement officer, you have an independent obligation to ensure that the nation's laws are upheld,

I predict John Roberts will be one of the great chief justices in our nation's history, ... purely political.