I do not decide cases based on personal or policy…

If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.

— Jill Lepore

I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have for all sorts of reasons. If…

— Ezra Miller

I decide cases from a neutral posture.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

— Byron White

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Were I confirmed as a judge, I would decide cases according to the rule of law beginning to end.

— Amy Coney Barrett

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the…

— John Cornyn

“Shifting the focus from why to how can help people become less radical. In a series of experiments, when people with extreme political views…

— Adam M. Grant

“Many political scientists used to assume that people vote selfishly, choosing the candidate or policy that will benefit them the most. But decades of…

— Jonathan Haidt

“legislatures at different levels of government, researchers, journalists, and judges involved in one or more aspects of the process. Each of these actors (either…

— Paul A. Sabatier

“Elections do not force successful candidates to reflect the policy preferences of the median voter,”

— Christopher H. Achen

People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions…

— Bob Barr

“I started thinking more about music. I thought I'd accepted the fact that, as part of "Being Gretchen," I didn't really like music, but…

— Gretchen Rubin

“Peeves are like that: my peeves are law, yours are unhealthy obsessions.”

— Robert Lane Greene

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

— Sengcan