the aspiration to impartiality is just that. It's an aspiration, because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others.

America is going to lose influence in the world.

Personally, I don't, as a judge, in any way embrace it with respect to judging.

The question is a contributor seeking to influence or to buy someone's vote, and there are situations in which elected officials have been convicted of taking a bribe because they have agreed in exchange for a sum of money to vote on a…

No, sir. Absolutely not.

Our system of election financing permits extensive private, including corporate financing of candidate's campaigns, raising again and again the question of what the difference is between contributions and bribes and how legislators or…

The issue was whether or not employees who were a member of a disparately impacted group had a right under existing precedent to bring a lawsuit.

intrusions by a judge upon the functions of other branches of government should only be done as a last resort and limitedly.

No, that's not the role of the courts. The role of the courts is to interpret the law as Congress writes it.

I can assure your constituents that I have a completely open mind on this question.

I don't like characterizing the reasons for why Congress acts or doesn't act.

It contains, as has been recognized by the courts for over 90 years, certain rights under the liberty provision of the Due Process Clause, that extend to the right to privacy in certain situations.