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.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

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.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

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.

Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

The United States now stands alone in a world that has turned its face against the juvenile death penalty.

We are not the masters of our own destiny as far as our case load is concerned.

Americans have to have a link with their Constitution. They have to understand it in the context of their own time.

A State cannot … deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws.

Bad people should be incarcerated.

Federal criminal prosecutions are a direct function of the number of U. S. Attorneys. The more prosecutors that are appointed, the more criminal prosecutions there will be.

Law lives in the consciousness of the people.

The law has to be, in part, a teacher.

There are very few countries in the world where we have a jury system as we all know.

It is not my call ... it is not for the judicial branch to decide.

It is wrong to say that the Constitution will change with the times. It will be, illuminated by the times.

Moslems are not just a bunch of nuts and whackos .... these are people with whom we are simply out of touch.