This book must... touch... deep and difficult questions about birth an — Laurence Tribe

"[T]he courts that held slaves to be non-persons, separate to be equal, and pregnancy to be non sex-related can hardly be deemed either final or infallible."

"[T]hat speech... was political genius but jurisprudential danger, because he created an impression that Robert Bork really liked the idea of coat-hanger abortions, that he liked the idea of racial separation of neighborhoods, whereas the fact is that Bork’s philosophy might have led to many of those consequences, but to demonize him the way my friend Ted Kennedy did I thought was going to work politically, but something that people would come to regret later. And, of course, I think that’s what happened, because it rallied a lot of academics and scholars and moderates to Bork’s side, thinking that he had been improperly caricatured..."

"Judicial neutrality necessarily involves taking sides. ...[J]udicial restraint is but another form of judicial activism."

"[T]he highest mission of the Supreme Court... is not to conserve judicial credibility, but in the Constitutions own phrase, "to form a more perfect Union" between right and rights within the charters necessarily evolutionary design."

"Given its remarkable activism in constraining the President vis-à-vis Congress and the courts and in limiting Congress vis-à-vis the States, the current Supreme Court cannot be understood as pursuing a modest institutional role. ...I prefer postulates honestly expressed to analyses whose underlying assumptions are obscured by the jargon of neutral principles and the language of "objective" legal description."

"The inescapable boundaries of societal context and consciousness argue... that [judges] must raise distinctive voices of principle."