Who can give the sacrament of confirmation in the Catholic Church? Out of curiosity, when someone plans to recieve the Sacrament of Confirmation, do they have to recieve this Sacrament from a bishop or cardinal, or can any ordained minister give this Sacrament?
A bishop has the power to confirm, but this power can be delegated to a priest.

See the Catechism of the Council of Trent's section on Confirmation:


  Minister of Confirmation
  
  Pastors should also teach to whom especially has been committed the
  administration of this Sacrament; for as, according to the Prophet,
  there are many who run without being sent, it is necessary to teach
  who are its true and legitimate ministers, in order that the faithful
  may be enabled to receive the Sacrament and grace of Confirmation.
  
  Now the Holy Scriptures show that the Bishop alone is the ordinary
  minister of this Sacrament, because we read in the Acts of the
  Apostles that when Samaria had received the Word of God, Peter and
  John were sent to them, who prayed for them that they might receive
  the Holy Ghost: for he was not as yet come upon any of them, but they
  were only baptised. Here we may see that he who had baptised, having
  been only a deacon, had no power to confirm; but that its
  administration was reserved to a more perfect order of ministers, that
  is, to the Apostles. The same may be observed whenever the Sacred
  Scriptures make mention of this Sacrament.
  
  Nor are there wanting in proof of this matter the clearest testimonies
  of the holy Fathers and of Popes Urban, Eusebius, Damasus, Innocent
  and Leo, as is evident from their decrees. St. Augustine, also,
  seriously complains of the corrupt practice of the Egyptians and
  Alexandrians, whose priests dared to administer the Sacrament of
  Confirmation.
  
  The thorough propriety of reserving this function to Bishops the
  pastor may illustrate by the following comparison. As in the
  construction of buildings the artisans, who are inferior agents,
  prepare and dispose cement, lime, timbers and the other material,
  while to the architect belongs the completion of the work; so in like
  manner this Sacrament, which is, at it were, the completion of the
  spiritual edifice, should be performed by no other than the chief
  priest.