46 Quotes by David Garrow

The volume is being turned up on both sides, both in the attacks on the court and in the justices' response.

I just can't imagine a scenario in which the White House seriously risks a defeat.

I believe he believes in shrinking the social or political footprint of the court. But can you think of any current justices, right or left, who believe the same thing?

The evidence in this poll suggests that race relations in America may be distinctly better than most of us think they are, ... Bearing the Cross.

The health exception is based on professional respect and regard for doctors. Health is anything a doctor says it is, and neither legislators nor judges should be redefining it. I don't think it can be abused.

I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent historical authors do because, to me, that's a contradiction of who I believe I am given my absorption of the teaching of Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think American life would be better without Twitter, and I think we'd have a better country if the president was not on Twitter. What people say in a bar or a pub doesn't necessarily merit being memorialised.

One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.

I first started reading about Barack and taking notes when he won the Iowa caucuses in January 2008 because I was embarrassed that, at that point, I knew virtually nothing about him.