The Supreme Court Quotes

The Supreme Court Quote of the day

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

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.

The Supreme Court kept me from my freedom.

The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

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.

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

It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.

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

Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.

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

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

I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.

Whether it's before the election or after the election, the principle is the American people are choosing their next president and their next president should pick this Supreme Court nominee.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

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.

The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic.

The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency.

The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional.

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called.

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

The one place that David is equal to Goliath is in the Supreme Court.

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.

Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the world the final proof by means of the Supreme Court-Martial and its verdict.

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

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.

I'll tell you how to solve this abortion thing...Those unwanted babies...? Leave about 12 of them on the Supreme Court steps.

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

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

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

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

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

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.

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

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

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.

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.

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

Supreme Court nominees should be individuals who not only understand, but truly respect the equal roles and responsibilities of different branches of government and our state governments.

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.

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

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