My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

You salivate on signal; they want a Pavlovian justice.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. [W]e are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits . . . of the majority are going to be.

We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it. That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago.

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.