Charles Pickering 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.

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told Trent Lott (R-MS), and told my son this voluntarily, We're going to confirm your dad by December. The groups said, No, not so fast; so they were calling the shots, they were calling the tempo,

I believe that it's going to be a tremendous fund-raiser,

Larry Kennedy would not have chosen to have ALS - none of us would. But he has accepted his diagnosis with grace and dignity and continued to live by faith.

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.

We need to understand the perspective of the other race, and we need to understand that compromise is not a dirty word.

When we've got a group that's as enthusiastic as they are and that has the energy and desire to make something work, I want to make sure we tap into that, ... You don't get that kind of enthusiasm very often.

They accuse the Bush nominees of being out of the mainstream of American thought, but polls indicate clearly that the positions they (liberal special interest groups) hold are the ones that are way, way out of the mainstream of American thought.

What happened to me is not that important in the scheme of things, he said. But what is happening to the judiciary is tremendously important to all Americans. So, I'm not bitter - my spirits are good. My faith has not been weakened. God's grace indeed is sufficient.

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.

I'm sure that the mayor thought he gave you the list and that was sufficient,

I knew in advance what they were going to say about John Roberts. They were going to say that he was a threat to these rights. That he was out of the mainstream, and they said that before they had ever researched his record. Doesn't matter.

I knew in advance what they were going to say about John Roberts. They were going to say that he was a threat to these rights. That he was out of the mainstream, and they said that before they had ever researched his record. Doesn't matter.

Dailey is definitely not a leader; he's a bully. It's his way or the highway. If you disagree with him, he attempts to intimidate rather than discuss it.

I have worked for more than three decades trying to provide better relations between the races, trying to protect equal rights. That's my core being, and they've attacked that.

The city has not yet committed to putting a millage on the ballot to support funding for the project,

I told him what he did was a heinous, reprehensible, despicable, dastardly act and that he was going to the penitentiary for it,

To accuse a white Southerner of being a racist is about the worst thing you can do, ... 60 Minutes.

This is where we're talking about federal government and rapid response. And those two normally don't go together.