Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't.

Brett Kavanaugh is a brilliant, brilliant judge and one of the most-distinguished conservative jurists in the country.

If people can live openly and be equal, then you have to have a pretty strong reason to say they can't get married.

I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It's been an incredible thing.

In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.

It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross.

After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.

As the sun hides behind clouds, success hides behind trouble.

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.

When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.

When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.