Herb Kohl Quotations

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

I will vote my hopes and not my fears

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

Its time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.

When the President makes something a priority, we see action

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond

She understands that when she comes before the committee, people will be looking for more than broad statements,

She has a burden. Everyone who comes before this committee has a burden, but I think her burden is perhaps higher.

My hope is that the White House considers this concern,

Well, you're likely to be confirmed, as we all know.

I think the guys understand it. If we're going to be a winning team, we have to defend. They really want to win. They recognize the fun quickly goes away if you don't win.

Larry has done a good job as our general manager. We look forward to his continued growth and development in the future.

Larry has done a good job as our general manager,

Our goal is obviously to get to the playoffs, but I hope we'll be more than that. I hope we get to the playoffs with a good seed, and we can win a round, maybe two rounds. In my mind, we're not a team that will be satisfied to be 41-41 or 40-42. We can do better. I think the guys feel that way, and I know the coaches feel that way.

We hope that this will not be an issue. But we are pursuing it because it is our responsibility.

We want a good seed. We're not content being the eighth seed. We want to be sixth seed or the fifth seed. So we have to win a host of games over the next 23. We're being challenged and I hope and I expect that we will respond.

As I said to him upstairs, 'The real work starts now,'

Evasions, avoidance and hiding behind legal jargon simply will not suffice, ... We need and deserve to know what is in your mind and in your heart.

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.

It makes the hearings even more important, ... It raises the bar higher, simply because the job is even higher. Chief justice is at another level.

it's much easier now for one man's home to become another man's castle.

that her knowledge, her philosophy, her experience is sufficient so that we can conclude that she is qualified to be a justice.

It needs to be completed and gone into in greater detail. We need some better answers and that's particularly true about her since she has such a thin resume in the context of the job we're talking about.

I'll just say he saw Roe v. Wade as occupying in that area of American life a central place and as being something that people depend on, and that has come to be very strongly embedded.

I just hope it will work itself out. I'm sure it will.

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

Over the course of more than 200 years, it has found a right to equal education regardless of race. It has guaranteed an attorney and a fair trial to all Americans, rich and poor alike. It has allowed women to keep private medical decisions private. And it has allowed Americans to speak, vote and worship without interference from their government.

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.

Whether interpreting the Constitution or filling in the blanks of a law or a regulation, every word of the court's opinion can widen or narrow our rights as Americans and either protect us or leave us more vulnerable to any winds that blow.

If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest of your working life. You will be interpreting the Constitution in which we as a people place our faith and on which our freedoms as a nation rest. And on a daily basis, the words of your opinions will affect countless individuals as they seek protection behind the courthouse doors.

We give Supreme Court justices this freedom because we expect them to remain above the pull of politics, to avoid the effects of public excitement and allow a broader view, not tied to the whims of the majority at a certain moment in history.

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political- economic system goes. In other words, we should not approve any nominee whose extreme judicial philosophy would undermine rights and liberties relied upon by all Americans.

Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year.

Judicial excellence requires an understanding that the law is more than an intellectual game and more than a mental exercise. He or she must recognize that real people with real problems are affected by the decisions rendered by the court. Justice, after all, may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.

Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.

You know, that would be one of those memos that I no longer agree with, Senator. I didn't fully appreciate what was involved in the confirmation process when I wrote that.

All the Wisconsin and Beloit stuff in their offices made me feel at home,