A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read. I would go into the Savannah Public Libraries in the stacks and see all of the newspapers from all over the country. Did I dream that I would be on the Supreme Court? No. But I dreamt that there was a world out there that was worth pursuing.

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

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.

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.