Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.

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.

An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.

I feel like I fight an aggressive style - smart / aggressive.

One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first five years of life.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.