Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.
In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.
I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.
The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.
My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
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.
