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“I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.”

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You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats…

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I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

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My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you…

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Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to…

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The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it....[I]f followed to its logical…

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The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference…

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Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive…

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A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech…

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I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything.…

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I' been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

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When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who…

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The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

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It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God…

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The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,…

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