Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more.

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

I want to stay on the subject of marriage equality because this is the part of the show that everybody loves but you hate if you're the one who has to hear your own voice.

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.

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Do you have things in your past you're not proud of? Things that make you feel ashamed?''That's what makes Christ's death on the cross so personal.

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.

Steven Gerrard would be the captain of my World XI dream team.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

I don't want to hear the specials. If they're so special, put 'em on the menu.

I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.