Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality.

But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.