The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.

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 the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.