Anthony Kennedy: “This is the opportunity, peace is what gives us the opportunity to make democracy stronger, to make freedom more…”

The Supreme Court, which usually stays out of these things, the United States Supreme Court said, wait a second, this just stinks to high heaven.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they…

When it has 1,100 laws, which in our society means that the federal government is intertwined with the citizen's day-to-day life, you are at real risk of running in conflict with what has always been thought to be the essence of the state…

I stand by what we wrote and what we decided. It's a difficult issue.