There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

I think a lot of the Trump supporters think that the job situation is not good.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook.

Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.

Something's moving, something's changing. See His glory feels like heaven on earth.

Human beings have enormous resilience.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.