"Kathleen Marie Sullivan" is a professor at the Stanford Law School and name partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, a litigation-only white shoe law firm with offices in California, New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago, San Francisco, Germany, Sydney, Hong Kong, London, and Tokyo where she chairs their national appellate practice group.

She was considered to be a potential candidate to replace David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. If she had been nominated, she would have become the first coming out/openly lesbian nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court in American history.

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We need to decrease front-loading, increase diversity, recognize Iowa and New Hampshire laws and traditions and have a calendar that will let us elect a Democrat to the White House.

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The most frustrating thing of all to me is there is no need for this dispute. We've always worked well in Iowa and could have in this instance.

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He is a very nice guy, easy to talk to. For me, I don't know anything about politics and we usually talk about family.

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I had every confidence we could get a Feb. 8 primary approved. When it comes to Feb. 1, I don't have the same level of confidence at all, .

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The party is just one small piece of the larger prevention effort, but it is vital to teach young people that having fun does not need to involve alcohol.

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You just keep going and going. You go as fast as you want. I just like coming out here and doing it.

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Instead of focusing on electing a president in 2008, this commission appears to be heading down a precipitous path. If you have all theses caucuses front-loaded, Democrats will end up with a nominee by the middle of January.

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[Siebel is celebrating its triumph over the SEC.] This was a win not only for Siebel but for all public companies trying to do the right thing, ... We contested the SEC's claims in order to exonerate the company and its executives and to bring clarity to an important issue that was mishandled by the regulators.

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The commission has recommended a very bad plan. It is my belief that it makes the nominating process much more narrow and less democratic. You will have a Democratic nominee chosen in three weeks in January of 2008.

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