I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.

We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.