If I'm Confirmed I'll Be Myself.

Justice Sandra Day O'connor Has Been A Pioneer, And Her Dedicated Service On The Supreme Court Will Never Be Forgotten. And The People Of The Country Certainly Owe Her A Great Debt For The Service That She Has Provided.

This Was A Time Of Great Intellectual Excitement For Me. Both College And Law School Opened Up New Worlds Of Ideas.

My Father Was Brought To This Country As An Infant. He Lost His Mother As A Teenager. He Grew Up In Poverty.although He Graduated At The Top Of His High School Class, He Had No Money For College. And He Was Set To Work In A Factory But, At The Last Minute, A Kind Person In The Trenton Area Arranged For Him To Receive A $50 Scholarship And That Was Enough In Those Days For Him To Pay The Tuition At A Local College And Buy One Used Suit. And That Made The Difference Between His Working In A Factory And Going To College.

I've Learned A Lot During My Years On The 3rd Circuit, Particularly, I Think, About The Way In Which A Judge Should Go About The Work Of Judging. I've Learned By Doing, By Sitting On All Of These Cases. And I Think I've Also Learned From The Examples Of Some Really Remarkable Colleagues.

I Want To Commend The [federalist] Society For Bringing Together The Best Minds From Right, Left, And Center To Debate The Most Pressing Legal Issues Of The Day.