Does it stop being a quota because it is somewhere between eight and 12 percent, but it is a quota if it is 10 percent? ... Once you use that term 'critical mass,' you're in quota land.

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

Until the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy at its best. Individuals on both sides of the issue passionately, but respectfully, attempted to persuade their fellow citizens to accept their views.

Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.