Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people, if you don’t love yourself then it can never be enough.

We're all a beautiful, wonderful work in progress....Embrace the process!

He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them.

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

The only thing I've ever regretted is not writing more; not being more honest; not saying how it really is in Baghdad. It's hard to get there sometimes.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

See-through goes with everything.

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