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 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.

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

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.

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.

I follow Jesus not because I don't have any doubts. I follow Jesus because in my doubt, He has always been tender with me.

As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.

I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is.

I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Focus on the impact you make versus the title you have.

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.