Quotes on Judges

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

Author: Floyd Abrams

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

Author: Susan Anton

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Author: Francis Bacon

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

Author: Alec Baldwin

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Author: Honore Balzac

All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.

Author: Gary Bauer

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

Author: Stephen Breyer

Judges are appointed often through the political process.

Author: Stephen Breyer

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

Author: Joyce Brothers

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

Author: Warren Burger

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

Author: Warren Burger

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.

Author: John Conyers

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

Author: Stockwell Day

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

Author: Alan Dershowitz

There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.

Author: Robert Duncan

As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.

Author: James Durbin

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

Author: Scott Hamilton

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

Author: William Hogarth

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Author: Alexander Pope

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.

Author: Debbie Schultz

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

Author: Charles Schumer

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

Author: Lamar Smith

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer.

Author: Sol Wachtler

Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

Author: Paul Weyrich