The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

- John Roberts

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culminati…

- John Roberts

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

- John Roberts

There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidn…

- John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

- John Roberts

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

- John Roberts

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those…

- John Roberts

If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, the little guy is going to win in court before me, ... But if the Constitution says that the…

- John Roberts

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those v…

- John Roberts