Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on great issues that matter to the American people and to speak for them.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

Even one justice can advance or reverse the progress of our journey.

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.

Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.