He doesn't bring personal political views to work.

He's incredible and he's Hispanic, ... and I think the Democrats saw that and thought, 'The reason he's being nominated for a lower court is he's the next Supreme Court nominee, so let's block him now.' .

It says he's feeling better, that he is still in charge. It's not like him to offer his personal thoughts on these kinds of things, but he clearly felt it was time to end the talk [over retirement] and restore some normalcy to the court.

In the entire country, there is no better Supreme Court advocate than Miguel Estrada.

Keep the trains running smoothly and on time.

He's not going to give in lightly to being sick. He's going to fight it hard.

He set up a system during conferences where every justice, one by one, in order of seniority, is allowed to weigh in on a case, ... There is no free-for-all debate. The chief justice does not allow bickering. He shuts it down.

People need to realize the Supreme Court does most of its business in a written format. People submit written papers, which he can take with him and the oral arguments are recorded. So if you miss something, you are not really missing something.

He told the president that he'd come and you know, nobody takes their job more seriously than the current chief justice.