It's been a great honor for me to spend my career in public service.

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

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

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

Good judges are always open to the possibility of changing their minds based on the next brief that they read, or the next argument that's made by an attorney who's appearing before them, or a comment that is made by a colleague during the conference on the case when the judges privately discuss the case.

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.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.