Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.

It really broke him up. Those experiences have had a profound impact on me. It's just so striking what the university has done, is doing and will do for the people on an individual basis. To think that I will have a big role in helping to move this institution into the future is just awesome.

It had a profound impact on me as a human being, and I did a lot of growing within that, so that will always be a defining moment in my life, a defining time.