“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached”
“In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.”
“There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.”
“[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.”
“A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.”
“A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.”
“The Court today completes the process of converting [Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964] from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.”
“What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?”
“If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.”
“The line between protected pornography and unprotected obscenity lies between appealing to a good healthy interest in sex and appealing to a depraved interest, whatever that means."
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