Judges Quotes

I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

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.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.

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.

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.

The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.

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

Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.

When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.

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

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

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.