If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

[Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?

This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.

Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

My advice would be to whoever is going after judges by name, whether it's the president or anybody else, I think it's a terrible idea. I don't think it's a very smart thing to do a Muslim ban.

I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.

The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.

I'm drowning and you're stealing every breath.

She’s drunk dialing contractors ” Chloe said to Tara. “Someone should stop her.

We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

Trolls look for reasons to hate but really what they are mad at is the fact they are not included in anything ever.

My style has always been very free, easy, relaxed, and slightly androgynous.

The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.