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It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

We have to ensure we are aggressively enforcing existing laws.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.