There can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race, … In the eyes of government, we are just one race, it is American.

forcing political parties to associate with those who do not share their beliefs. And it has done this at the crucial juncture at which party members traditionally find their collective voice and select their spokesman.

It was at most an irresponsibly speedy chase, … Is there any evidence that there was an intent to kill anybody?

The First Amendment has not repealed the ancient rule of life, that he who pays the piper calls the tune,

is locked in the heart of the president.

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I think we know what it’s aimed at, which is abortion protesters, … a totally different entity when you do it from eight feet away.

I really don’t understand what harm is done here,

then everything becomes an obtaining of property.

[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

We are unwilling to send police and judges into a new thicket of 4th Amendment law, to seek a creature of uncertain description that is neither a plain-view inspection nor yet a “”full-blown search.””

No statute pursues its purposes at all costs, … This is not play money.

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

It’s unrealistic to say (that while) he knows of his right to appeal, if the judge told him what he already knew, there would be a different outcome,

I assure you, I have no agenda.

Antitrust law is not there to protect the merchant, but to protect the consumer,

I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.

In the public forum out in the street, can we have a law that enables people to turn off unwelcome speech?

I don’t know. I wouldn’t want to go through it today, I’ll tell you that much.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached

It would be in the best interest of many children to take them away from their parents and give them to someone else. But the parents have rights.

He had a skin problem? … Who would have thought this could lead to cold-blooded murder?

that the jury is not.

The first instinct of power is the retention of power, and under a Constitution that requires periodic elections, that is best achieved by the suppression of election-time speech,

We’re all going to be old, … It’s unlike other personal characteristics such as race and sex.

If there was anybody that has been sort of the social glue of the court, it’s been Sandra and I will miss her,

find itself unable to resolve the significant legal issue presented by the case.

impact my heart in a very big way.

Many times in the campaign I said a few things like that without thinking through the implications of what I was saying.

Why are you picking on the parties?

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you’d like it to mean?

this is not play money.

When dinner is over, it won’t be her bones on the table.

a serious inability of our political branches to conduct international affairs.

So if B pays more than A, that’s acceptable?

I saw nothing amiss in that friendly letter and invitation, … I surely would have thought otherwise if I had applied the standards urged in the present motion.

the interest of the overwhelming majority of religious believers in being able to give God thanks and supplication as a people, and with respect to our national endeavors.

Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.

We say ‘tough luck, you have to sell it in stores,’

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

is to give live-birth abortion free rein.

Why isn’t there a fear of extortion if the speech could help destroy his business?

Let the cancer patients suffer.

We tried a ban of (alcohol) and decided, forget about it,

I do not believe my impartiality can reasonably be questioned,

irrational hatred of the disabled.

Abortion is off the democratic stage. Prohibiting it is unconstitutional, now and forever, coast to coast, until I guess we amend the Constitution.

Maybe he wanted to buy a new crutch for Tiny Tim, … Please, counselor, don’t read all these tenderhearted things into it.

I gather they don’t know where it is,