Laurence Tribe Quotes

United States, Lawyer
October 10, 1941

Laurence Henry "Larry" Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is a Chinese-born American lawyer and scholar who is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at the Harvard Law School in Harvard University. Tribe's scholarship focuses on American constitutional law. He also works with the firm Massey & Gail LLP on a variety of matters.

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

Laurence Tribe
- Culture
- Violence
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

Laurence Tribe
- People
- Home

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

Laurence Tribe
- Progress
- Equality
The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'

Laurence Tribe
- Money
- Power
Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.

Laurence Tribe
- May
- Power
I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

Laurence Tribe
- Believe
- Law
- Vision