John Jay
John Jay
John Jaywas an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signer of the Treaty of Paris, and first Chief Justice of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth12 December 1745
CountryUnited States of America
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I've got to give a lot of credit to (Oregon coach) Ernie Kent on that. He was really receptive to that, and the officials were also. ... I genuinely applaud that and appreciate it for Lamar.
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The glue of the team is not with us. We have come unglued.
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The Information-Sharing Environment is overly ambitious, ... It is one of those vague mandates that will drift into nothingness.
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You've got to credit them for what they do to people. They run you down with their defense.
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I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps.
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On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.
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I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.
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It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.
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A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.
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The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.
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Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.
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Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.
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It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
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The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.