73 Quotes by Anthony Kennedy

The Constitution doesn’t belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

There’s a time for debate and a time for consensus. There’s a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it’s not going to last.

There’s substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.

In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can’t mean that in the judicial context or we’re in real trouble.

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that’s unpopular.

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it’s a crime?

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were.

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual.