“The truth is that the judge who looks outside the Constitution always looks inside himself and nowhere else.”— Robert Bork
“Originalism is a methodology that invites judges to impose their own values under the guise of history.”— Laurence Tribe
“I believe that the Constitution is the ultimate law of the land, and that it should be interpreted as it was written.”— Jim Sensenbrenner
“The idea of a 'living Constitution' has in the last half-century gotten out of hand.”— William Rehnquist
“A constitution is not meant to facilitate change. It is meant to impede change, to make it difficult to change.”— Antonin Scalia
“Originalism is not a political program; it is a theory of constitutional interpretation.”— Steven G. Calabresi
“But the same society that has changed in the last 200 years has a legislature. The legislature is made up of people who are elected by the people. And if people want to change the Constitution, there is a way to do that in the Constitution, in Article V. It’s not a living organism, it’s a legal document.”— William Rehnquist
“It is arrogant to pretend that from our vantage we can gauge accurately the intent of the Framers on application of principle to specific, contemporary questions.”— William J. Brennan Jr.
“Critics of the originalist approach to constitutional interpretation often claim that it is a philosophy of nostalgia. It is not.”— Edwin Meese
“The Constitution is not a living organism. It's a legal document, and it says what it says and doesn't say what it doesn't say.”— Antonin Scalia
“The Constitution is not a 'living' document. It's a dead document. It says what it says and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.”— Neal Boortz
“The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying a law that someone else has made.”— Robert Bork
“The text of the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and it should be interpreted as it was understood by those who ratified it.”— Steven G. Calabresi