Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.

People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.

On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it's a good idea.

Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.

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.

We do Him [God] honor in our pledge of allegiance, in all our public ceremonies. There's nothing wrong with that. It is in the best of American traditions, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. I think we have to fight that tendency of the secularists to impose it on all of us through the Constitution.

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