The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

If I had to choose, I would always take the less dynamic, indeed even the lazy person who knows what's right than the zealot in the cause of error. He may move slower, but he's headed in the right direction.

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.

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.