Antonin Scalia

It is a concern that this is not the kind of question you can leave to Congress.

Even the name of it is wonderful, the Voting Rights Act. Who is going to vote against that in the future?

If you are going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you are not always going to like the conclusions you reach.

it is precisely because we are a cosmopolitan Nation made up of people of every conceivable religious preference, and precisely because we value religious divergence, that we cannot afford the luxury of deeming presumptively invalid, as…

When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage, 1791, 1868?

as much as I think that it is improper to use foreign law to determine the meaning of the Constitution, I don't think it's any of [Congress's] business . . . if you can tell us not to use foreign laws, you can tell us not to use certain…

I do not believe that the meaning of our Constitution should be determined by the subjective views of five members of the Supreme Court and like-minded foreigners.

I think it is up to the judge to say what the Constitution provided, even if what it provided is not the best answer, even if you think it should be amended. If that is what it says, that is what it says.

I did not think that that was constitutional.

Well, you know, if you let Congress think about these things Congress is going to protect incumbents.

there has not been a single case, not one, in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit.

Justice O'Connor's assertion that a fundamental rule of judicial restraint requires us to avoid reconsidering Roe cannot be taken seriously.