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I have great faith in the jury system.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

I have a lot of faith in people.

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginning to end, by the law.

People must be confident that a judge's decisions are determined by the law and only the law. He must be faithful to the Constitution and statutes passed by Congress. Fidelity to the Constitution and the law has been the cornerstone of my life and the hallmark of the kind of judge I have tried to be.

Our role as judges is to interpret the law.

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.