I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.

It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.

The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.

Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

Don’t go trying some new fashion, don’t change the color of your hair; I couldn’t love you any better, I love you just the way you are.

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

In the exodus out of Iraq, we're seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was control of chemical weapons stockpiles, without a status-of-forces agreement. We left before the Sunni and Kurds we fought with and fought alongside with were stable, or without empowering them. We left on a political rhetoric.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

My resume is lean enough that I don't have the added baggage that is not necessary to be able to be successful in government.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Caterpillars can fly if they just lighten up.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.

I do think you are mainly thrown into one medium as an actor, and then hopefully you grow from there.

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living.

I thought I had a shot to play for the Dolphins.

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.

We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like things to fit into boxes, and it's unfortunate because humans are unique and should be celebrated and embraced as such.