John RobertsThinkers

Judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from one's own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of one's role as a judge.

Judicial temperament is the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

A Lawyer joke is difficult to pull off in a mixed audience; the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

Same-sex marriage is ultimately not about a group seeking to join the institution of marriage, but about seeking to change what the institution is, insofar as the fundamental core of the institution is the opposite-sex relationship.

The State (U.S. states) is a separate and independent sovereign, and sometimes they need to act like it.