Miers Quotes

#1. President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle.

Peter Baker

#2. Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

Ellen Goodman

#3. Given her lack of experience, does anyone doubt that Ms. Miers's only qualification to be a Supreme Court justice is her close connection to the president? Would the president have ever picked her if she had not been his lawyer, his close confidante, and his adviser?

Randy Barnett

#4. The bottom line is this: Miers is a disappointing pick.

Ben Shapiro

#5. Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

#6. If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.

Charles Krauthammer

#7. Harriet Miers isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on The West Wing , let alone to be a real one.

Ann Coulter

#8. And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly.

Mary Tyler Moore

#9. And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.

William Raspberry

#10. I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

Ted Kotcheff

#11. While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials and information will continue.

Harriet Miers

#12. Hold on to the love, not the loss.

Eva Longoria

#13. I have been informed repeatedly that in lieu of records, I would be expected to testify about my service in the White House to demonstrate my experience and judicial philosophy,

Harriet Miers

#14. It matters./It doesn't matter. Build space in your head for this paradox. Build as much space for it as you can. Build even more space. You will need it. And then go deep within that space - as far in as you can possibly go - and make absolutely whatever you want to make. It's

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

John Burnside

#16. Never ignore a possible. ~Charles

Katherine Rundell

#17. I write to withdraw as a nominee to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States ... I am concerned that the confirmation process presents a burden for the White House and our staff that is not in the best interest of the country.

Harriet Miers

#18. By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.

David Brinkley

#19. O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#20. If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

George Bernard Shaw

#21. For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.

Yelawolf

#22. Just to be part of a process where you hit no professional speed bumps and you're just sort of going on and on. I'm surrounded by these people that are all so collaborative and all bring things of their own to the process. For them to be alive in the scenes so you don't have to worry.

Josh Peck

#23. So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.

John Benjamin Hickey

#24. the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah