Political Quotes

“Justice Scalia says in one of his dissents: ``I have exceeded the speed limit on occasion.'' He said: ``A man who has no enemies is probably not a very good man.'' He said: ``If you read the rest of the section, you would say, to find a way to find a meaning that the language will bear that will uphold the constitutionality. You don't interpret a penalty to be a pig. It can't be a pig.'' He did know how to bring things back to tangible terms. He said: ``If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.'' I've experienced that myself. There were times I disagreed with the law, but it was constitutionally made and passed, and I followed the law as a judge and chief justice. That is exactly what he did. In a dissent in 1996, Justice Scalia said: ``The Court must be living in an another world. Day by day, case by case, it is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.'' Ten years later, in 2006, he says: ``So the question comes up, is there a constitutional right to have homosexual conduct? Not a hard question for me. It's absolutely clear that nobody ever thought when the Bill of Rights was adopted that it gave a right to homosexual conduct. Homosexual conduct was criminal for 200 years in every State.…”