Sometimes it is easy...to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

He's got to know about personal responsibility. What happened hurt me a lot. But I want him to know I still love him as a kid. I love him as a football player. It's hard right now, but I want him to know he can turn it around. He can change.

The chief justice is the most important judge in the country, with even more responsibility for the protection of the rights and freedoms of all Americans. Thus John Roberts bears a heavier burden when he comes before the Senate.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

[News conference, April 21 1961]