Zitat des Tages von Anthony Kennedy:
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.