Court Quotes

Let [Ted] Cruz - let the people go to the courts and see if he's here legitimately. I don't know. I'm not going to get into that.

She [Justice Sandra Day O'Connor], unlike, Judge Bork, did not think that being on the court would be an "intellectual feast," to quote Judge [Robert Heron] Bork.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor brought critical qualities to the high court that not everybody thinks are qualities - I happen to think they are - her pragmatism and her state craft.

The truth of the matter is there is significant debate among judicial scholars today as to whether or not we've gone off on the wrong path with regard to Supreme Court decisions.

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?

This country has gotten seriously off track under the Supreme Court when it went so far as to limit the right of even private citizens to freely express their religious views in public.

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress and the laws enacted by state legislatures.

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the American people.

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test.

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.

No judicial nomination should answer any question that is designed to reveal how the nominee will rule on any issue that could come before the court.

On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.

It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes.

That got thrown out of court are what got me thrown out of school.

I still feel like five years old every time I step on the court. It's my sanctuary...I want to maintain the fun at all times.

When I warm up now though—especially on center court—there is usually music playing, so I don't really mess with music.

After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.

I want to get the American people to start sitting at a table together and talking to each other, holding court, and enjoying a meal - and it doesn't have an expense.

I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.

With a versatile player, there's no spot on the court you can't pass him the ball. You can do anything.

Chemistry is important. If you like your teammates, it's going to be easier to play with them on the court.

I feel good doing it. It's not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I'm just losing the ball dribbling. I think I'm handling the ball pretty well, just trying to make good passes, man.

We're talking too much about what goes on in the stands, nothing about what goes on on the court.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.

It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.

What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.

When I'm on the court, it's like I'm in heaven.

People tell me that I'm always smilin' on the court. I don't think about it. I just get emotional out there.

The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.

But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.

I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

I really do not think about 'Oh, right now I have to defend those points and this title.' I just really want to enjoy playing on the court, in front of the fans.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job, to go to court, to see a doctor or to find a safe place to live.

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians (meaning upper caste Hindu Indians) or colored people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trains.