The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

I finally gave up my little law practice and stayed home for about three years. You have to do what you can to keep the family going. But I wanted to get back to work. So I got another babysitter and went to work as an Assistant Attorney General.

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

I like to think that the court will continue to be held in high regard by the public. I think it should be.

Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.