It's been true since the beginning of the republic.

The risk they face is that (the public strategy) boomerangs.

Appeared in better spirits today than I have seen them before.

When people are looking for federal judges, they're looking for people who are safe, sound and reliable. These are criteria that favor people who have chosen conventional careers in the law.

If you have a bad outcome, then you're pretty sure the whole effort was not helpful.

[Jackson's defense attorneys are looking for jurors] who understand that children can lie, and if not, at least they can form perceptions that are false and spurious, ... On the other hand, the prosecution is looking for people who believe that children do not lie about sexual impropriety, and people who believe in law and order and hate the abuse of children.

I felt I didn't have a ninth in me.

It's justice. What we're doing is justice.

We're really not talking about bad faith here. Both liberals and conservatives sincerely believe that the best interpretation of the Constitution calls for results they prefer.