"My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it."

"It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be."

"The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear."