304 Quotes by John Roberts

The Framers were not the sort of people, having fought a revolution to get the right of self-government, to sit down and say, 'Let's take all the difficult issues before us and let's have the judges decide them.'

He was a fine guy, one who brought practical experience to the classroom.

Opposition to quotas is not opposition to civil rights,

The court has . . . recognized that personal privacy is a component of the liberty protected by the due process clause, ... The court has explained that the liberty protected is not limited to freedom from physical restraint, and that it's protected not simply procedurally, but as a substantive matter as well.

has adopted this siege mentality in which the best way to deflect the question is to attack the questioner. I'm not quite sure who he's playing to -- maybe the segment of the Republican Party that believes we're a bunch of liberals who have our own agenda.

The old formula was you raised $5 million in funding, you go into stealth mode. You think of a product you think the world needs and you develop the product in a closed environment, ... Then you raise another $5 million and hire $300,000-a-year sales representatives.

The court has explained that the liberty protected is not limited to freedom from physical restraint.

There are situations that arise when an executive may determine that that type of action is necessary. That may be challenged,

the most precious rights we have as Americans.