Seats on the [Court] bench are not reserved for causes or interests. They're given to those who will uphold the rule of law so long as the nominee is well-qualified to interpret and apply the law.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

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

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.