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.
CLARENCE THOMASThe 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.
More Clarence Thomas Quotes
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Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
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I agree with the (Supreme Court’s) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.
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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. You do a lot of soul-searching – ’cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.
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I don’t really have the luxury to be bitter. I don’t have the luxury of having negative things in my life.
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It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
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You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
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I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
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I have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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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.
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If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
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A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.
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I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.
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To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
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