Quotes by Antonin Scalia

About Antonin Scalia:

Antonin Gregory Scalia is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. As the longest-serving justice currently on the Court, Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice. Appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia has been described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's conservative wing.
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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 C...

Antonin Scalia

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

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...

Antonin Scalia

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

Antonin Scalia

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Antonin Scalia

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

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Antonin Scalia

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

Antonin Scalia

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

Antonin Scalia

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

Antonin Scalia

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

Antonin Scalia

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

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You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from m...

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Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

Antonin Scalia

Author Bio

  • NameAntonin Scalia
  • DescriptionAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • AliasesAntonin Gregory Scalia
  • BornMarch 11, 1936
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJudge; Lawyer