If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

People do change, sometimes we just choose not to notice it.

Some are interested in the mysterious, but lose interest once they think they know you.

I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.

Auspiciousness comes only through balance.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.