13 Quotes by Joseph Hoffman

It's historically not at all unusual for someone to come from outside the court and to be junior to many people already on the court to be nominated directly to be chief justice.

The nature of judging is special from other decision making, ... They have to suppress their gut instincts and rule from precedents, the rule of law.

In some ways, he may be looking down at all of this and be amused by it all. He was a person who liked being anonymous.

He's not a bomb-thrower. He cares about other people's points of view, ... In the hearings, we learned exactly what we wanted to learn about Roberts. He's judicious ... Bush stepped up in picking Roberts. He picked someone who was going to be a judicial conservative, not an injudicial conservative.