Honest opinion about government from Robert Bork:
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
American Enterprise Institute, 1984Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
The Tempting of America, 1991[W]hen a judge goes beyond [his or her proper function], and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.
1987
Lawyer, former federal judge, and Reagan Supreme Court nominee, Robert Bork is known for his vast scholarship and his judicial philosophy, which is that of strict constructionism, in which judges are to evaluate laws in relation to the original intent of the Constitution. He taught at Yale Law School, was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and wrote The Anti-Trust Paradox (1978) and The Tempting of America (1990), in which he explains, among other things, his judicial philosophy.
Quotation and short bio from The Quotable Conservative: The Giants of Conservatism on Liberty, Freedom, Individual Responsibility, and Traditional Values. Rod L. Evans and Irwin M. Berent, editors. Holbrook, Mass.: Adams Publishing, 1996.