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

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.

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.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.