As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about ou….

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete..

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen..

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are..

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainst….

Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have ….

Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative..

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The st….

If you ask judges, do you always agree on everything? Of course not, we divide just as you do. Why aren't you transparent about it? Because the peopl….

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control..

Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose ta….

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people shoul….

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if th….

Congress could always stop the President if Congress thinks that what the President has done exceeds the President's authority or is just wrong for t….

We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for all - are encountering extraordinary ….

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true..

...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, no….

I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race discrimination w….

Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does..

I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012..

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court..