Quotes by Sheldon Goldman

“The difference in treatment that she has received has been absolutely stunning.”

“Is she qualified? If the leading professional association is either divided or comes in with a negative report, that could be fatal. Strongly positive, that would be helpful.”

“It really depends on the committee and the preferences of the committee members.”

“To have a Supreme Court open just four weeks from now, the first Monday in October, with only seven people and no chief justice would be unprecedented, and I dont see that happening.”

“I suspect that Leahy and the Democrats position is strategic: to defuse Republican charges that this is strict partisanship - that interest groups are controlling the show.”

“If a nominee has been very active in either organization, it raises some red flags. If you have that membership and a record of activism, that compounds the felony,”

“I have to sympathize with this woman.”

“This is a member of the presidents official family.”

“Just because you run IBM, for example, doesnt mean you are exceptional at acquiring companies.”

“Its Robertss nomination to lose. He needs to please the Republican conservative base and more-centrist Democrats, ... If he comes across as an ideologue - as anti-civil rights, anti-womens rights - he will lose. If he stonewalls, hes finished. But its inconceivable ... that he will open himself up like that.”