One Of The Greatest Gifts My Brother

It Is Not Easy To Stand Up Against Your Constituents Or Your Friends Or Colleagues Or Your Community And Take A Tough Stand For Something You Believe Is Right. Because You Always Want To Keep Working And Live To Fight Another Battle And It Might Cost You Your Career.

People Don't Always Realize That My Parents Shared A Sense Of Intellectual Curiosity And A Love Of Reading And Of History.

The Most Beautiful People Are All In The Library.

The Bedrock Of Our Democracy Is The Rule Of Law And That Means We Have To Have An Independent Judiciary, Judges Who Can Make Decisions Independent Of The Political Winds That Are Blowing.

Sometimes It Takes A While To Recognize That Someone Has A Special Ability To Get Us To Believe In Ourselves, To Tie That Belief To Our Highest Ideals And Imagine That Together We Can Do Great Things. In Those Rare Moments, When Such A Person Comes Along, We Need To Put Aside Our Plans And Reach For What We Know Is Possible.