The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and very seldom use the spurs. So it was with our chief [William Rehnquist]. He guided us with loose reins and used the spurs only rarely to get us up to speed with our work.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.