I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative. I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

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

Narrow scope of judicial power was the reason that people accepted the idea that the federal courts could have the power of judicial review; that is, the ability to decide whether a challenged law comports with the Constitution.

I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.