It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.

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.

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

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