Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function. (Arlen Specter)

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.

Arlen Specter

Related topics

committee court judiciary power judges

Related quotes

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. View quote
Gerry Spence
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. View quote
George Orwell
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death! View quote
Jack Kevorkian
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. View quote
Lewis Mumford
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche