Work hard on each opinion, but once the case is decided, don't look back; go on to the next case and give it your all. It's not productive to worry about what's out and released, over and done. That's advice I now give to people new to the judging business.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Congress could always stop the President if Congress thinks that what the President has done exceeds the President's authority or is just wrong for the United States.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.