Justice Anthony Kennedy

I was there because I wanted to see a fitting memorial to everyone who has died in every terrorist incident everywhere.

Make decisions about the President’s personal security. He can overrule you, but don’t ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

About 70% of the public, the lowest 70% on the income scale, are pretty much disenfranchised. Their attitudes have no detectable influence on the policies of their own representatives. As you move up the scale you get a bit more influence. When you get to the top, policy is made.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

In some intellectual circles, it is considered naive or foolish to be guided by moral principles. About this form of idiocy, I will have nothing to say.

The argument for liberty is…an argument…against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.

To fear the world we have organized and led for three quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership, and our duty to remain the last, best hope of Earth, for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems, is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

Trumpism is one of many manifestations of the effects of the neoliberal policies of the past generation. These have led to extreme concentration of wealth along with stagnation for the majority.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia’s good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

I believe I have mentioned that President Trump – well it’s his first presidential term and he’s gaining momentum, he’s building up his experience in this field and we’ve had a dialogue on this issue [North Korea]. He listens to what I’m saying, he listens to my arguments.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

Nation-state systems basically arose in Europe in their modern sense, and they’re extremely unnatural social organizations. They had to be imposed on the populations by violence, extreme violence.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.