"Let's all be friends now, ok?"

"A good judge, like a good umpire, cannot act as a partisan. ... If you are playing the Yankees, you don't want the umpires to show up wearing pinstripes."
--Brett Kavanaugh (2015)

"I said a few things I should not have said."
--Brett Kavanaugh (2018)

Unfortunately, it's often hard to un-ring a bell. Especially when you have profited mightily from the ringing.