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Judges should interpret the laws according to what they say, not according to what the judges wish they would say. Judges are supposed to interpret the laws; they are not supposed to make them.

Our role as judges is to interpret the law.

Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

Judges should always behave judicially by adjudicating, never politically by legislating. I leave policy to policymakers. They're preeminent, but they're not omnipotent. In other words, lawmakers decide if laws pass, but judges decide if laws pass muster.

I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

If people want to change the law, they should vote so that we can appoint pro-life judges. I believe the law should be changed.

A president shouldn't tell the judiciary what to do.