We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

Make it large', life is a canvas. You can paint it to be 'a dot' or masterpiece it to be 'the universe

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.

If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.