294 Quotes on Court

• Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.

  Author: Alan Young

• If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.

  Author: John Yoo

• A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.

  Author: John Yoo

• It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks.

  Author: John Yoo

• Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

  Author: William Wycherley

• If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

  Author: James Wilson

• Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

  Author: Serena Williams

• I was surprised I won the award because I've always been a very aggressive player and I earn my share of fouls on the court. I play rough, and because I'm an older player, of course I use tricks on the younger players.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

  Author: Theodore White

• We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.

  Author: Ryan White

• The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

  Author: Byron White

• I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

  Author: William Whipple

• Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.

  Author: Timothy West

• One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

  Author: Morris West

• At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.

  Author: John Waters

• The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.

  Author: Earl Warren

• Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

  Author: Robert Walpole

• I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.

  Author: Rick Wakeman

• If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

  Author: Arthur Waite

• Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

  Author: Nina Totenberg

• Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

  Author: Henry Timrod

• Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

  Author: Thucydides

• Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

  Author: Charles Talleyrand

• People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

  Author: Gay Talese

• Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

  Author: William Taft

• Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

  Author: Cass Sunstein

• If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.

  Author: Jon Stewart

• I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

  Author: Stendhal

• Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

  Author: Sonia Sotomayor

• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  Author: Lamar Smith

• I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.

  Author: Eddie Slovik

• In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

  Author: John Sirica

• I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.

  Author: O. Simpson

• The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• We've been following Judge Alito's career over the last 15 years, while he's been on the Court of Appeals.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  Author: Walter Scott

• The human element should be the two players on the court, not the officials. The best officials are the ones you never notice. The nature of the game made officials too noticeable a part.

  Author: Gene Scott

• In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.

  Author: Otto Schily

• The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

• The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed.

  Author: Pete Sampras

• I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

  Author: Gabriela Sabatini

• For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.

  Author: Ann Rule

• What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really "empathy" and "understanding." He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

  Author: Karl Rove

• The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

  Author: Mike Rounds

• This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.

  Author: Rick Ross

• And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!

  Author: Julius Rosenberg

• The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

  Author: Alan Rickman

• Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.

  Author: Andy Richter

• Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.

  Author: William Rehnquist

• If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

  Author: William Rehnquist

• The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

  Author: Ludwig Quidde

• There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

  Author: Harold Pinter

• I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

  Author: Harold Pinter

• If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

  Author: Harold Pinter

• I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going.

  Author: Mary Pierce

• All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

  Author: William Pepper

• The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now.

  Author: Timothy Pawlenty

• This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.

  Author: James Patterson

• You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice.

  Author: Rod Parsley

• This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

  Author: Rod Parsley

• He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications.

  Author: Rod Parsley

• It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

  Author: Rod Parsley

• MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

  Author: James Otis

• The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

  Author: Ted Olson

• Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots.

  Author: Joshua Norton

• If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

  Author: Eleanor Norton

• I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

  Author: John Newcombe

• That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon.

  Author: John Newcombe

• The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

  Author: Ralph Neas

• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  Author: Ralph Neas

• We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.

  Author: Robert Mueller

• For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

  Author: Constance Motley

• Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court.

  Author: Helen Moody

• After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

  Author: David Minge

• We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

  Author: Jeff Miller

• Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

  Author: Robert Menendez

• In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.

  Author: Donella Meadows

• I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

  Author: Norma McCorvey

• We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

  Author: Pete McCloskey

• Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

  Author: Joyce Maynard

• Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

  Author: Amelie Mauresmo

• The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.

  Author: Paul Martin

• Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.

  Author: Charles Manson

• Insults are the business of the court.

  Author: Naguib Mahfouz

• During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.

  Author: Augustus Longstreet

• If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

  Author: Belva Lockwood

• We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges.

  Author: Joe Lockhart

• In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

  Author: Walter Lippmann

• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  Author: Walter Lippmann

• When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.

  Author: Lisa Leslie

• Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

  Author: Lisa Leslie

• The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

  Author: Jay Leno

• There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.

  Author: Patrick Leahy

• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  Author: Patrick Leahy

• I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

  Author: Richard Land

• A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

  Author: Alphonse Lamartine

• Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

  Author: Richard Krajicek

• Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

  Author: Richard Krajicek

• For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

  Author: Richard Krajicek

• Roddick has good presence on the court and has so much adrenalin.

  Author: Richard Krajicek

• I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

  Author: Dennis Kozlowski

• A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.

  Author: Anna Kournikova

• A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.

  Author: Michael Kinsley

• The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

  Author: Michael Kinsley

• My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan.

  Author: Peter King

• I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

  Author: Jason Kidd

• I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

  Author: Jack Kevorkian

• The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

  Author: Jack Kevorkian

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

  Author: Anthony Kennedy

• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  Author: Irving Kaufman

• If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.

  Author: Elena Kagan

• The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

  Author: Elena Kagan

• Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

  Author: Raul Julia

• I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

  Author: Barbara Jordan

• Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

  Author: Eddie Jones

• To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

  Author: LeBron James

• When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

  Author: Robert Jackson

• Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

  Author: Michael Jackson

• This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

  Author: LaToya Jackson

• If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

  Author: Allen Iverson

• As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

  Author: Goran Ivanisevic

• Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

  Author: Thomas Huxley

• If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

  Author: Anne Hutchinson

• I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.

  Author: Anne Hutchinson

• If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.

  Author: Saddam Hussein

• I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.

  Author: Saddam Hussein

• Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

  Author: Laurence Housman

• For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

  Author: David Horowitz

• This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

  Author: Oliver Holmes

• Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

  Author: Benjamin Hoff

• I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

  Author: Martina Hingis

• The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.

  Author: Martina Hingis

• What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.

  Author: Anita Hill

• We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

  Author: Anita Hill

• But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

  Author: Arthur Hertzberg

• While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

  Author: Stephanie Herseth

• We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country.

  Author: Gilbert Hernandez

• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

  Author: O. Henry

• I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.

  Author: Richard Helms

• World history is a court of judgment.

  Author: Georg Hegel

• There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

  Author: Patty Hearst

• Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

  Author: Dennis Hastert

• The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

  Author: John Harlan

• Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

  Author: Mariska Hargitay

• I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

  Author: Thomas Hardy

• As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.

  Author: Daniela Hantuchova

• Yes, yes, I'm very happy that I finally got through this match, beat No. 7 in the world. It's my best win so far. So I'm really happy the way I play today and felt really strong on the court physically, mentally.

  Author: Daniela Hantuchova

• It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

  Author: Learned Hand

• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

  Author: Learned Hand

• Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

  Author: Dashiell Hammett

• Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

  Author: Jurgen Habermas

• And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

  Author: William Gurnall

• There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

  Author: Meg Greenfield

• I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

  Author: Harold Greene

• People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.

  Author: Harold Greene

• We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.

  Author: Lindsey Graham

• I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

  Author: Ruth Ginsburg

• We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

  Author: Ruth Ginsburg

• I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

  Author: Uri Geller

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

  Author: David Frum

• I went to the Capitol and came to court specifically to draw attention to the problems of the world that directly affect my state of mind and my physical body and to offer a way to clean up the world. This is my intent.

  Author: Lynette Fromme

• The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.

  Author: Dave Freudenthal

• As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

  Author: Felix Frankfurter

• More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.

  Author: Guy Forget

• All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.

  Author: Curt Flood

• All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

  Author: Andrew Fletcher

• It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today.

  Author: Tom Fitton

• I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

  Author: Bram Fischer

• Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

  Author: Fred Fielding

• An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

  Author: William Feather

• What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

  Author: Benjamin Fairless

• I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

  Author: Julius Erving

• I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

  Author: Sam Ervin

• There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

  Author: Mark Edwards

• And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.

  Author: Sibel Edmonds

• An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

  Author: Finley Dunne

• I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.

  Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

• It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

  Author: William Douglas

• One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

  Author: William Douglas

• Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

  Author: John Doolittle

• Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

  Author: Phil Donahue

• The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline."

  Author: Alan Dershowitz

• We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.

  Author: Dorothy Denning

• Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

  Author: Stockwell Day

• Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

  Author: Stockwell Day

• There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

  Author: Clarence Darrow

• Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

  Author: Stanley Crouch

• When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

  Author: Norm Crosby

• The judge gave Michael permission to issue a statement. I think Jackson went way outside the bounds of the judge's intent. It will be interesting to see what the judge does tomorrow in court.

  Author: Catherine Crier

• By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

  Author: Donald Cram

• The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.

  Author: Jim Courier

• To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

  Author: Pierre Corneille

• The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.

  Author: John Conyers

• The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

  Author: Nat Cole

• If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

  Author: Morris Cohen

• The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

  Author: Johnnie Cochran

• This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

  Author: Richard Cobden

• The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

  Author: Eldridge Cleaver

• A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

  Author: Tom Clark

• In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.

  Author: John Clark

• The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

  Author: Malcolm Chazal

• And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

  Author: Margaret Cavendish

• There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

  Author: Paul Castellano

• Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.

  Author: Joyce Cary

• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  Author: Vince Carter

• Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

  Author: Dean Cain

• The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

  Author: Jack Cade

• With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

  Author: Augusten Burroughs

• It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

  Author: Warren Burger

• If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

  Author: James Buckley

• The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

  Author: James Buckley

• One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional amendment subjecting political speech, if not pornography, to government regulation.

  Author: James Buckley

• As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.

  Author: James Buckley

• The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.

  Author: James Buckley

• The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

  Author: Jean Bruyere

• In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

  Author: Pat Brown

• I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.

  Author: Robert Bork

• The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

  Author: Robert Bork

• We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

  Author: Henry Bonilla

• I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.

  Author: Nellie Bly

• When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

  Author: Michael Bloomberg

• What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

  Author: Harry Blackmun

• I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.

  Author: Judy Biggert

• You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

  Author: Joe Biden

• I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

  Author: Brendan Behan

• All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

  Author: Gary Bauer

• You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

  Author: James Baker

• I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

  Author: John Ashcroft

• I just want to get on the court.

  Author: Carmelo Anthony

• I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

  Author: Kevin Anderson

• My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

  Author: Namie Amuro

• I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.

  Author: Aldrich Ames

• I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

  Author: Samuel Alito

• I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.

  Author: Alan Alda

• The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

  Author: Todd Akin

• But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

  Author: Andre Agassi

• I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

  Author: Andre Agassi

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  Author: Victoria Abril

• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  Author: Floyd Abrams

• CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

  Author: Floyd Abrams

• Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

  Author: Dan Abrams

• Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

  Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

• I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

  Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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