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I will vote my hopes and not my fears
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
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I will vote my hopes and not my fears.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
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Fears
Hopes
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Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Bankruptcy
Decision
People
Serious
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When the President makes something a priority, we see action
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
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President
Priorities
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A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Benches
Character
Court
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Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Confirmation
Excellence
Giving
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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.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Fighting
Needs
Way
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Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Healthcare
Want
Years
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The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Branches
Rights
Sides
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Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Fabric
Generations
Shapes
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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
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Sports
Basketball
Games
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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.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Sports
Basketball
Involvement
Umpires
Zone
Strike
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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.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Blind
Deaf
Justice
May
Views
Explain
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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.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Promise
Real
Retirement
Secure
Senior
Social Security
Steps
Mend
Secure Retirement
Seniors
Strengthen
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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.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Consensus
Developing
Firearms
Amendment
Forth
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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
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Children
Games
Negative
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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
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Easter
War
Winning
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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.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Children
Creation
Distribution
Disturbing
Effects
Games
Negative
Video
Will
Ban
Cannot
Prevent
Video Games
We Cannot
Where
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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.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Billions
Dollars
East
Middle
Middle East
Muslim World
War Done World
Beyond
Billions Of Dollars
Efforts
Hundreds
Muslim
Pour
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As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Powerful
Rights
Years
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Its 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.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Drug
Needs
Reform
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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.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Affordable
Prescription Drugs
Providing
Reports
Safe
Setting
Time Start New
Clearly
Defending
Dire
Prescription
Roadblocks
System
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Whether interpreting the Constitution or filling in the blanks of a law or a regulation, every word of the court's opinion can widen or narrow our rights as Americans and either protect us or leave us more vulnerable to any winds that blow.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
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Rights
Wind
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We give Supreme Court justices this freedom because we expect them to remain above the pull of politics, to avoid the effects of public excitement and allow a broader view, not tied to the whims of the majority at a certain moment in history.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Giving
Justice
Views
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Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political- economic system goes. In other words, we should not approve any nominee whose extreme judicial philosophy would undermine rights and liberties relied upon by all Americans.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Mean
Philosophy
Rights
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Judicial excellence requires an understanding that the law is more than an intellectual game and more than a mental exercise. He or she must recognize that real people with real problems are affected by the decisions rendered by the court. Justice, after all, may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Exercise
Law
Real
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Over the course of more than 200 years, it has found a right to equal education regardless of race. It has guaranteed an attorney and a fair trial to all Americans, rich and poor alike. It has allowed women to keep private medical decisions private. And it has allowed Americans to speak, vote and worship without interference from their government.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Government
Race
Years
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If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest of your working life. You will be interpreting the Constitution in which we as a people place our faith and on which our freedoms as a nation rest. And on a daily basis, the words of your opinions will affect countless individuals as they seek protection behind the courthouse doors.
Herb Kohl / Former United States Senator
Doors
Rights
Writing
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