I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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.

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.

In my view, if the Court had properly interpreted the Second Amendment, the Court would have said that Amendment was very important when the nation was new, it gave a qualified right to keep and bear arms but it was for one purpose only, and that was the purpose of having militiamen who were able to fight to preserve the nation.

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.