Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.

I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.

American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.