I am proud to say that the Federalist Society was founded in part at the University of Chicago, and one of its best characteristics has been an attack on liberal shibboleths by looking at real consequences and specific problems and by asking what law actually does.

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of rules.

Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something.

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.