Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool; every generation has to learn it. And I'm not sure the recent generations have done that good a job of learning about it.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

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.

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.