Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.

I'm, not gonna lie. I'm not perfect. And to my knowledge, no one except one person is. And they are NOT human.

The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes - outweighs the risk of error.

I'm so not perfect.