221 Quotes by Antonin Scalia

So if B pays more than A, that's acceptable?

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

Maybe he wanted to buy a new crutch for Tiny Tim, ... Please, counselor, don't read all these tenderhearted things into it.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

one of the great minds of our generation, of our time.

I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine my position!' I probably believe that the worst opinions in my court have been unanimous. Because there's nobody on the other side pointing out all the flaws.

I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

He had a skin problem? ... Who would have thought this could lead to cold-blooded murder?