The highest priority you can have is education.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.