It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process.

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

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

One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.

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

The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking the wherewithal to travel can't. There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.