I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.

To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.

The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide political matters.