None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

We must dissent from the fear.