I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.