Leonard Leo Quotations

She has demonstrated that in her capacity as White House counsel and a senior administration official as well as an active member of the organized bar.

She has been a forceful advocate of conservative legal principles and judicial restraint throughout her career.

He can pull it off because they really respect him. What other justices look for in a chief justice is honesty, straight-shooting and smarts. That's what they want and that's what they'll get.

I thought his answers on the privacy issue were pretty good, and were satisfying to me,

Documents that she's prepared as executive counsel to the president will be subject to executive privilege.

There would be a moment of silence when she was clearly thinking about what was being said and then she would challenge it, asking, 'But what specifically in those opinions strongly suggests that this is someone who ascribes to judicial restraint?

Schumer pressed him very hard on accepting the word 'general' in the context of right to privacy, and he refused to do so. That says something very meaningful about the way in which he thinks about the right to privacy.

That took the kind of courage and determination you want on the Supreme Court,

that they were very interested in making sure that the president nominated a second individual who shared the philosophy of judicial restraint.

It took a degree of courage for Harriet to be involved in that. The ABA is a place where there was an awful lot of liberal activism, so it took some courage for a woman to take the position she did.