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.

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.

To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God.

I will now sing another song for your pleasure. Now, if you like Phil Collins...you should be shot in the head.

Since she's discoveredmen would rather drownthan nibble, she does just fine.

I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.

I think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible.

Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions