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.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

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

My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.

It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

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