Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.
I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.
I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
We need a country that embraces all, and rewards innovators, entrepreneurs, job creators, and hard-working people of all sorts.
I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.
But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.
I've probably given more speeches, been on TV more than any other member of the Court - or almost any other member of the Court.
