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

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.

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 have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

If you can be a blessing to somebody else, you're sowing a seed for God to help you.

The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

I used to be a regular college student and now I go all over the country and stay at really nice hotels.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.