“You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.”

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.

In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda

The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that’s what I do.

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

All people are born alike except Republicans and Democrats.

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.