- Judges and Justices are servants of the law, not the other way around. Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules, they apply the rules...and I will remember that it's my job to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat.
- [on the role of the United States Supreme Court] It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.
- [on the constitutionality of the 'Affordable Care Act'] Put simply, Congress may tax and spend.
- [some advice presented in the 9th grade commencement address to his son's class, 2017] From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to learn the value of Justice...I wish you bad luck - again, from time to time - so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life. And understand that your success is not completely deserved, and that the failure of others is not completely deserved, either...You are privileged young men, and if you weren't privileged when you came here, you're privileged now because you have been here. My advice is: Don't act like it... You've been at school with just boys. Most of you will be going to school with girls. [Pause] I have no advice for you.
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