Elena Kagan Quotes

Since 17-year-olds can join the military, there is no way our legislature is going to tell [them] they’re old enough to risk their lives for our country but they’re too young to get married.

It is unconstitutional to deny people, gay or lesbian couples, the right to marriage. Everyone has equal rights so this is the right way to go. I think it's a great celebration for America.

Nobody should get married at 17.

I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals.

When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?

We hold that same sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all states.

While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless, civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all couples.

I was the youngest in the world in history when I started, 15. That's illegal now.

As attorney general, I have a duty to defend the laws and constitution of the State of Missouri.

Frank Johnson was recognized as one of the great federal judges of American history, I suppose. He was a law-and-order judge. He was a classical, I think, conservative. But he believed that civil rights provided in the Constitution applied to everybody.

Whether you're gay, straight, you can't tell anybody who to love and who to marry. It's unconstitutional and it's morally wrong.

I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.

Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.

I think this is the other big issue that is not going away: Do we really believe that bit in the Constitution or not? I think we do.

As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it - it was written by very smart people, it's served us well for over two hundred years, and besides, we're not using it anymore.

It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.

The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

I've been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I'm a big supporter.

I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.

One of the loveliest weddings I ever performed was that of a gay couple. To me if you are a good citizen, you pay your taxes, you work, you should have all the rights and responsibilities of everybody else.

I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution: the principle of religious independence, of religious liberty, of religious freedom.

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family.