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.

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.

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.

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.

Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?

He better call Becky with the good hair.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring.

We opened El Bulli; there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then.

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace

I'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person.

Everyone should strive to be a world citizen. Boundaries were created by man, not the Creator. There is no such thing as THEM vs. US. There is only WE.