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" The earth is warming. Humans are contributing. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Earth
Contributing
Humans
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" I believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Believe
Judiciary
Crown
" If the president does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available. "
Brett Kavanaugh
President
Something
Process
" Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the president's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Focus
Her
Like
" A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Ban
Arms
Speech
" I believe that the president should be excused from some of the burdens of ordinary citizenship while serving in office. This is not something I necessarily thought in the 1980s or 1990s. Like many Americans at that time, I believed that the president should be required to shoulder the same obligations that we all carry. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Thought
Believe
Citizenship
" As a judge, I hire four law clerks each year. I look for the best. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Year
Look
Best
" The nation certainly would have been better off if President Clinton could have focused on Osama bin Laden without being distracted by the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and its criminal investigation offshoots. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Focused
Nation
Off
" With respect to the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees, I was not aware of any issues on that or the legal memos that subsequently came out until the summer, sometime in 2004, when there started to be news reports on that. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Legal
News
Summer
" I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Questions
Rules
About
" There is one kind of judge. There is an independent judge under our Constitution. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Constitution
Kind
Judge
" I have tried to create bonds with my daughters like my dad created with me. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Me
Daughters
Create
" A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Must
Independent
Law
" I am proud that a majority of my law clerks have been women. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Women
Law
I Am
" The task of dealing with global warming is urgent and important. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Dealing
Important
Task
" My wife, Ashley, is a West Texan, a graduate of Abilene Cooper Public High School and the University of Texas. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Texas
Wife
High School
" My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. - McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Me
Mom
She
" There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Persuasive
Constitutional
Meaningful
" Having seen first-hand how complex and difficult the job is, I believe it vital that the president be able to focus on his never-ending tasks with as few distractions as possible. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Job
Possible
Believe
" A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Constitution
History
Tradition
" If confirmed to the D.C. Circuit, I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully. That would be binding precedent of the court. It's been decided by the Supreme Court. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Follow
Supreme
Supreme Court
" Justice Kennedy devoted his career to securing liberty. I am deeply honored to be nominated to fill his seat on the Supreme Court. "
Brett Kavanaugh
I Am
Supreme Court
Career
" A court's assessment of an agency's compliance with statutory limits does not depend on whether the agency's policy is good or whether the agency's intentions are laudatory. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Policy
Depend
Compliance
" I think justices of all stripes agree that stare decisis is important, but not an inextricable command. It's not inflexible; it's not absolute. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Stripes
Agree
Important
" We should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecutions. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Civil
Suits
Sitting
" I am part of the vibrant Catholic community in the D.C. area. The members of that community disagree about many things, but we are united by a commitment to serve. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Disagree
I Am
Commitment
" A president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president. "
Brett Kavanaugh
President
Investigation
Job
" The Senate should consider a rule ensuring that every judicial nominee receives a vote by the Senate within 180 days of being nominated by the president. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Judicial
President
Days
" My judicial philosophy is straightforward. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Philosophy
Straightforward
Judicial
" When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Say
Like
Child
" The law does not allow the FTC to just snap its fingers and temporarily block a merger. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Merger
Just
Fingers