I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall.

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.

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?

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.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

One is a majority if he is right.

Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.

Our lives of service and sacrifice are the most appropriate expressions of our commitment to serve the Master and our fellowmen.

When I started out, I wanted to have everything solved by the time I was 30. That didn't happen. Instead, I realized that the journey is the destination, that the work.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.

I loved movies ever since I was a kid.

You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried.