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.

I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.

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.

You can't have it all, all at once. Who—man or woman—has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

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

Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description.