Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.

We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

My parents were just carried out of the building in the service elevator, " he shouted at the cops. "They were vile, but they didn't deserve to be taken out with the trash!

Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history.

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.

I like watching a man boss everybody around. It's so sexy