An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.

A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.

In this vast cosmic orchestra, peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Act always so as to increase the number of choices

He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a human.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.