I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.