Antonin Scalia Quotes

"The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will."
- Antonin Scalia
(Related: Sex, Act, Civil rights, Court, Race, Today, Will)

"You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out."
- Antonin Scalia
(Related: states)

"Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?"
- Antonin Scalia
(Related: Lawyers, World)

"What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?"
- Antonin Scalia

"If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility."
- Antonin Scalia
(Related: Death, Idea, Abortion, Constitution, Flexibility, Living, Right, Want)

"If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless."
- Antonin Scalia
(Related: Experience, People, Conscience, Constitution, Lawyers)

"A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable."
- Antonin Scalia
(Related: Nothing)

"A law can be both economic folly and constitutional."
- Antonin Scalia
(Related: Folly, Law)

"A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement."
- Antonin Scalia
(Related: Purpose, Machine, Xerox)

"Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?"
- Antonin Scalia
(Related: Public, State, Wishes)

"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."
- Antonin Scalia
(Related: Family, First)