Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. Washington Irving American Writer More Washington Irving Quotes 1
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. Samuel Dash American Lawyer More Samuel Dash Quotes 1
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena. Stockwell Day Canadian Politician More Stockwell Day Quotes 0
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward. Charles Edison American Businessman More Charles Edison Quotes 0
However, I keep reminding them that this issue is not a new issue that has come out for this election. This issue has been in the courts for two years and two months now. Sibel Edmonds American Public Servant More Sibel Edmonds Quotes 0
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. Dwight D. Eisenhower American President More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes 0
Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids. Bob Geldof Irish Actor More Bob Geldof Quotes 0
If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line. John Harrison English Inventor More John Harrison Quotes 0
The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion. Ernest Istook American Politician More Ernest Istook Quotes 0
My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure. Ricardo Lagos Chilean Politician More Ricardo Lagos Quotes 0
This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses. Bob Ney American Politician More Bob Ney Quotes 0
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. Sandra Day O'Connor American Judge More Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes 0
Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. Sandra Day O'Connor American Judge More Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes 0
The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried. Sandra Day O'Connor American Judge More Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes 0
We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them. Christine Pelosi Writer More Christine Pelosi Quotes 0
We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested. Janet Reno American Public Servant More Janet Reno Quotes 0
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. William Howard Taft American President More William Howard Taft Quotes 0
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. William Makepeace Thackeray English Novelist More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes 0
The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts. Earl Warren American Judge More Earl Warren Quotes 0
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. Mohandas Gandhi Indian Leader More Mohandas Gandhi Quotes 0
CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court. Floyd Abrams American Lawyer More Floyd Abrams Quotes 0
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. Floyd Abrams American Lawyer More Floyd Abrams Quotes 0
The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail? Floyd Abrams American Lawyer More Floyd Abrams Quotes 0
In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. Dennis Cardoza American Politician More Dennis Cardoza Quotes 0