I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

I can still remember the day, as an assistant U.S. attorney, when I stood up in court for the first time and I proudly said, "My name is Samuel Alito and I represent the United States in this court." It was a great honor for me to have the United States as my client during all of those years.

Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything has been considered.

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.

My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

If I'm confirmed I'll be myself.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.