If what you're thinking is 'Would Sam overrule Roe?' - he would not. He might have restrictions and limitations, but it is a precedent he'd honor.
-- Judge Leonard I. Garth, a Nixon appointee for whom Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito served as a law clerk in the 1970s and later joined as a colleague.
I don't justify it at all, but there is an element of social demand here, of social distress. The message is: our life is s**t, so we are going to destroy everything.
-- An anonymous intelligence official in France, where riots sparked by the deaths of two Muslim teenagers have raged for ten nights in the suburbs and Paris itself. On Saturday alone, several malls and schools were vandalized, over 1,000 cars were torched and nearly 400 people were arrested.
The fact that gunfire and pirates got close enough to even peripherally injure people, that's a lot closer than we'd like them.
-- Michael Crye, president of the International Council of Cruise Lines, referring to a luxury ship that was attacked by pirates off the Somali coast of Africa on Saturday.
