”… don’t pontificate on the floor of the Senate and tell me that somehow I am violating the Constitution of the United States of America by blocking a judge or filibustering a judge that I don’t think deserves to be on the circuit court because I am going to continue to do it at every opportunity I believe a judge should not be on that court. That is my responsibility. That is my advise and consent role, and I intend to exercise it:”
-Senator Gordon Smith (R-NH) in 1998. (Current Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) supported Smith’s filibuster).
“I had a great campaign ad. I stood in front of one of my barns, and I said: “Montana is not New York City. We don’t need a bunch of new gun laws. We need to enforce the ones we already have.” And then we moved to a shot where I was with one of my sons and my daughter, and I was holding a .270, which is a fairly good-size rifle. As I’m talking, I lifted the bolt, shoved in a bullet, put the safety on and handed it
to my son as my daughter watched, and he touched one off.”
-Montana Governor Brian Schwietzer (D)
