I think it's important for the American people to know…

I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He said you…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“Constitutionalism as a guiding political tendency will require careful and thoughtful development, as did jurisprudential originalism. But its wide appeal and philosophical depth make…

— Charles Krauthammer

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your…

— Antonin Scalia

It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a…

— Diane Wood

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

— Antonin Scalia

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

— Michael Pitt

It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.

— Edward Hirsch

I think it's important for the American people to be thoughtful consumers of information and to think about the sources of it and to…

— Christopher A. Wray

I think there's no doubt that George Washington was the most important American to this time.

— Kevin Gutzman

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

When you hide behind a veil of your financial business you never know who you're influencing, where your priorities lie. But I think it's…

— Wayne Messam

I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handily revolutionized…

— Raoul Peck

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating…

— Marina Abramovic

I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what…

— George W. Bush

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty

— Stephen Breyer