Herb Kohl Quotes (26 Quotes)

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.

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.

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

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.

I will vote my hopes and not my fears.

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 made the point that it was at a different time for a different purpose, ... And (she said) we should not read too much into that in terms of where she might be on the issue of privacy, and a woman's right to choose.

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

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 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.

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's 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.

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.

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.

When the President makes something a priority, we see action.

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.

I think her burden is perhaps higher.

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.

Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.

If (Roberts) had been nominated, as he was originally, to replace Justice O'Connor, then his confirmation would have moved the Court to the right, ... That would have a much more difficult decision. It is my hope that the White House recognizes this concern when they choose their next nominee.

My hope is that the White House considers this concern,

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

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

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.

Judicial excellence involves candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power, so we want to know how he or she will exercise this power and how they see the world. And we need and deserve to know what is in your mind and in your heart.

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.