73 Quotes by Anthony Kennedy

Bowers was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today,

Sometimes it is easy...to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

A number of people would want to make us part of the American entertainment network.

This is not chauvinistic, ... Our purpose, our mission is to share democracy with the world.

In his personal relations he was unpretentious to the point of being casual, almost as if to put friends and colleagues at ease with his vast knowledge of history, remarkable grasp of the law, and a mind so precise he was at once formidable and delightful.

In this case, what we are concerned with is the intent in the little piece of paper called the ballot. Could each county have different results as to what intent is? ... It presents now a federal question to us, to determine whether or not there is new law.

The judiciary as an institution is faced with a new threat. Democracy is something that you must learn each generation.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Sometimes you don’t know if you’re Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.