I'm distressed to hear you think that judges or the Supreme Court is an organ of a party. That, to me, is just - I know you feel that way. And that distresses me.

None of you speaks for me. I speak for me. I am a judge. I am independent. I make up my own mind.

In a world without Chevron, very little would change except perhaps the most important things.

I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.

Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.

Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.

In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.

The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other's space and are champions of each other's causes.

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.