Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonin Scalia

Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.

Joel Salatin

Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.

John Sweeney

Working families need and deserve Supreme Court justices who understand and respect the importance of hard-fought rights and protections, not justices who take an unduly narrow view of the law.

We feel the district court was wrong. Our interpretation of the law is that a water quality violation is a water quality violation and can't occur. But we're still seeing water quality violations up at Pole Mountain.

We feel the courts in the end will see it our way, but we have to let that process go through.

We're pleased with the jury and we're raring to go tomorrow morning. I think these people are going to listen and going to have an open mind. They know this is a court of law, not a court of public opinion.

We're extremely pleased. The court system worked here.

Saddam Hussein

We reject the appointment of court employees to defend us.

Missy Peregrym

Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.

We're ready to start moving things onto the Internet, but I need some direction. If we move into a temporary facility we need to do it in the next two or three months. I need some guidance. I need to keep the records safe, support the courts and give employees a safe environment to work in.

We're ready for court. We want a trial. We've wanted to get in court for too long. There's only been one side of this being presented in any tribunal.

Dennis Nilsen

I have judged myself more harshly than any court ever could.

When the Supreme Court can take this power back is still a question.

Isabella Rossellini

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Carolyn See

Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.

People want Washington to be noted as a place of integrity and quality and that's what Tyrone brings. We've been in court too much and in the headlines for the wrong reasons.

Pedro Martinez

Please write that they were really, really nice - extremely nice - at Immigration. The court where they swore you in, the people were beautiful.

POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

Charles Kennedy

Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.

My teammates did a great job of putting me in different spots on the court where they couldn't double-team me or know where I was going to be. We did a great job of moving on offense and moving all around the court.

Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.

One of the differences between this year?s team and last year?s team is our defense. We?re a lot better defensively and we can stop teams and that get into our half court set. We don?t have to run that much.

There are way too many drainage problems. We don't have enough courts and lawyers to deal with the issue.

There are things and affirmative steps they should be taking which they have resisted in court today, but they did say they wanted to work with something effective and we'll take them at that word.

Mark Johnson

We've suggested to the court that a sweeping big deal can be accomplished in a single sentence, that the size of the measure is not the only yardstick by which that question should be measured.

I am just elated that this part is over, and I feel the U.S. Supreme Court did justice in recognizing the feelings and the needs of people who have terminal illness, to be able to use that process in a compassionate and dignified manner.

Ruth Ginsburg

But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view.

Bayou's filings with the court indicate that it's their money -- the state is pursuing proof of that.

Bob Arum

Because we're not very happy with some of the underhanded things that HBO has pulled in this situation. But it's unfair for me to get into it right now. They're not here and I'm sure you'll read about it in court papers that are going to be filed.

Imagine how this looks to William Mayo. This guy admits to lying, he admits to giving false testimony and still William is trying to get a court to hear this case.

Mutual respect and courtesy is one of the things that holds this vague organization together and that is in short supply.

George H. W. Bush

more prior judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in more than 70 years.

More time on the court and getting in more of a groove.