Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.