Judges Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

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.

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.

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

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

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.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

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

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.