What about your mind, does it shine?
There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
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.
Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.
Suppose a state said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?
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.
My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.
They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.
Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.
In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of 'victim thinking. ' Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.