We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

I think our system is being polluted by money.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

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.

Dissents speak to a future age.

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