Judges Quotes

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.

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.

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.

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

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.

There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.

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.

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.

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

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.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.