Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.
I'm in California, and that usually leans Democratic, and that's usually where I lean anyway... I would lean Democrat; I would lean Obama.
If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.
As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.
If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
It did not prepare me for writing or 'Power of Attorney.' However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.
It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.
We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.
We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.
The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.
The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.
