“I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They’re just my kind of people.”

The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker… Judging requires a certain impartiality.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.

The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it. If followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.

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 of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today’s decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

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 are in school systems that don’t educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

Understanding our history is one of many ways to break the cycle of racial injustice in this country. ⁣

For the sake of peace in the Middle East and the world, Japan will never give up and will continue to play its best possible role.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

It’s the people who determine who will be the President of the United States.

America is at a crossroads – are we going to continue this period of division and chaos, or are we going to step up to this moment and choose unity and truth.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

The hard-working folks across this country deserve an economy that supports them.

I never thought that I would represent my country one day.