If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.

What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.

[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.

[On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world.

I didnt know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

He may be for conservatives what (Justice William) Brennan was for liberals.

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.