Clarence Thomas Quotes

I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.

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.

I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.

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 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.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.

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 certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.