Anthony Kennedy Prestige Quotations

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

It involved a constitutional issue of the gravest importance decided 4-3 by a state court on a federal issue that it was our responsibility to take the case, ... Sometimes it is easy, so it seems, to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of our court.