Occupation: Governor Of Kansas Birth: September 12, 1956
Seats on the [Court] bench are not reserved for causes or interests. They're given to those who will uphold the rule of law so long as the nominee is….
[Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is be….
At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage,….
I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of r….
I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about..
The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer ….
My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer..
The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues..
Among the most famous of these Supreme Court cases of exercise of political power I believe are the cases of Roe V. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 ….
I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up..
I believe that the core battle of our day is the battle to defend the inherent dignity of each and every person, the inherent beauty of each and ever….
To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded..
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free m….
I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy..
It is far easier to get divorced from somebody you've been married to for 10 years and have three children by than to fire somebody that's worked for….
Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward w….
Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life..
Let's create a legal system that can work..
I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative. I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues..
The Supreme Court has also issued and never reversed a number of decisions that are repugnant to the Constitution's vision of human dignity and equal….
It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forw….