Court Quotes

The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.

The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction.

I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm definitely looking at my options and considering going overseas.

We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which is, "Privacy is the right to be left alone."

Anything can happen out there on any court.

To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.

The run of the ball is not in our court at the moment

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

Because judges may not issue advisory opinions, judicial nominees may not do so either, especially on issues likely to come before the court. That rule has always been honored.

I don't know hardly any of the players who have the in-between game like me, who can go to any position on the court.

Just fundamental things - I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

Anyway, I was the one in real danger. I got cornered by a pack of wild sorority girls in the food court. Apparently it's mating season.

Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.

I've done loads of things people have never seen, dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush, and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

Most people have to date or court other people before they meet the one.

I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

Home court will be tremendous. That will be a big relief, playing at home in front of the energy and the fans.

If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

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

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.

It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into the Court's prison facilities.

Who are these people?" my mother asked. "Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?

When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial.

I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.

When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on anything? They cannot have the final say on anything. The American people have the final say on anything.

Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

I play better tennis because the court is there.

This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.

I'm playing great tennis. I'm enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I'm loving it now.

I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.

I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'.

I've argued in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. I've argued in almost every circuit. And I tried, as a personal lawyer and U.S. attorney, over 50 cases.