121 Quotes by Clarence Thomas

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.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.

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.

When you prevent somebody from participating in our free society and the economics of our free society, I have some real problems.

Without performing legal acrobatics, I cannot make the instruction confusing. And I certainly cannot do the contortions necessary to find the Texas appellate court's decision 'objectively unreasonable.

We will miss him deeply as a friend and as a colleague. He was a good man who epitomized fairness, dignity and strength of character.

There is some misunderstanding. We do not look any place. We do not recruit. We are passive. We look at what comes to us.

The state can't undo the harm that was done, but I feel very strongly that if there is any role for the state, it is to protect us from others.