A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

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.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

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.