Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.

The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.

A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'