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

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.

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

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.

The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them.

No one's book is perfect.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you.

It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.

I've had every haircut you could possibly imagine: mullet, tail, dreadlocks, afro, crew cut. It's always been an expression of who I am.

I'm accepted by God and it has nothing to do with me.

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.