Quotes from Brett Kavanaugh

I was in high school - and I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, a Jesuit high school, where I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects, and friendship, friendship with my fellow classmates and friendship with girls from the local all-girls Catholic schools.

Even the lesser burdens of a criminal investigation - including preparing for questioning by criminal investigators - are time-consuming and distracting.

A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech.

I believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic.

I believe that an independent and impartial judiciary is essential to our constitutional republic.

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.

Congress should clarify that a sitting president is not subject to criminal indictment while in office.

Whether the Constitution allows indictment of a sitting president is debatable.

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.

A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law.

When I got into Yale College, got into Yale Law School. I've worked my tail off.

A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent.

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.

I've always treated women with dignity and respect.

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.

The law does not allow the FTC to just snap its fingers and temporarily block a merger.

As a judge, I hire four law clerks each year. I look for the best.

I have tried to create bonds with my daughters like my dad created with me.

The motto of my Jesuit high school was 'Men for others.' I've tried to live that creed.

Sometimes I had too many beers.

My time in high school and college, more than 30 years ago, has been ridiculously distorted.

I am not perfect. I know that. None of us is perfect.

However much we might sympathize or agree with EPA's policy objectives, EPA may act only within the boundaries of its statutory authority.

In my view, it is unreasonable for EPA to exclude considerations of costs in determining whether it is 'appropriate' to impose significant new regulations on electric utilities.