Robert Bork on Baron Parke
It is said that, at a dinner given in his honor, the English jurist Baron Parke was asked what gave him the greatest pleasure in the law. He answered that his greatest joy was to write a “strong opinion.” Asked what that might be, the baron said, “It is an opinion in which, by reasoning with strictly legal concepts, I arrive at a result no layman could conceivably have anticipated.”
—Robert Bork, in a lecture given to the American Enterprise Institute.