31 Quotes by Elena Kagan

It’s not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.

In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness.

If there is an ‘overabundance’ of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action – which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate – then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un-skew,’ rather than skew, public discourse.

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton’s assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan’s assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.