When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.

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

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

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.

Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.