Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

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

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

There are just a host of problems born by the electronic age. Things we couldn't even conceive of. I was amused by the analogy that Justice Scalia made in a case about a GPS tracker so you don't know that's being done to your car, is that a violation of your right to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. So Justice Scalia imagines a constable clinging to the bottom of a carriage as it went on its way, so there was some notion that this similar: there is an official eye that's on you, but you don't know about it. Yes, there are all kinds of challenges.

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

It's great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.