I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.
I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.
I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.
This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.
When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.
Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.
Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.
The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
The man of integrity who is true to self and to God will choose the right whether or not anyone is looking because he is self-driven, not externally controlled.
Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.
The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.
I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.
From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges.
