Quote of the Day

"I don't know her that well but I think she's had a distinguished record on the bench and she should be entitled to fair hearings... And she was called by somebody a racist once. That's not right. I mean that's not fair. It doesn't help the process. You're out there name-calling. So let them decide who they want to vote for and get on with it."

George H.W. Bush, on the attacks against Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Bush appinted Sotomayor to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.