Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.
Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.
In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.
I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.
One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.
We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.
If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.
Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.
We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.
Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.
Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.
No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
President Barack Obama is a doer. And we in America will do big things with him.
But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.
I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.
