Court Quotes - page 6

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived. (Sandra Day O'Connor)
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in. View quote
O. J. Simpson
I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court. View quote
Grant Hill
I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up. View quote
Martina Hingis
I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed. (Aldrich Ames)
What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it. View quote
Allan Houston
The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President. View quote
Andrew Card
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice. View quote
Anita Hill
A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people. View quote
Anna Kournikova
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece. View quote
Adam Hochschild
America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. View quote
Bill Johnson
The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny. View quote
Bob Schaffer
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. View quote
Bobby Scott
I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court. View quote
Brad Gilbert
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war. (Belva Ann Lockwood)
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down. View quote
Benjamin E. Mays
What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be. View quote
Benjamin Franklin Fairless
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda. View quote
Bennie Thompson
And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court. View quote
Cecile Richards