“It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.” CountryLawViewsMoralJudgingFoundationOur CountryAcknowledgmentAppeaseSad DayFederal Judges Author:Soledad O'Brien
“History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.” CountryPoliticsJudgingInspiredAccomplishVolunteer Author:T. M. Scanlon
“Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and over again with proven sexual abusers of children and batterers of women. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't done so much investigating.” PeopleIfsBelieveHumansChildrenCountryDoneRightsJudgingCourtHuman RightsCommittedProvenSevereViolationAbusersInvestigatingSidingCourt Judges Author:Lundy Bancroft
“We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.” MayCountryScienceNationsJudgingAmountProsperityAcid Book:Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner Source: Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner
“My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.” HeartCountrySoundJudgingMy HeartEarsTreatsOur CountryAcheReconciliationHatefulMindlessPartisanshipPolarizationHeart AcheDivisivenessMy Heart Aches Author:Tom Coburn
“For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.” IfsMenShouldLongCountryGovernmentWould BeLawForcePowerfulDoubtGroupsJudgingCitizensSafeConstitutionCourtThreatNeighborCommandEntitledProminentUnrulyBoisterous Author:John F. Kennedy
“You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way it treats people coming on to do these guest shots.” PeopleWayCountryShowsJudgingShotsTreatsPrisonerGuests Author:Donal Logue
“I have a lot of respect for President Obama. I consider him a friend. I disagree with him on issues like the extension of tax breaks that Bush initiated. But I think history will judge a President Obama a lot better than many other contemporaries, given the fact that he came into office at a time when this country was in terrible, terrible shape.” ThinkingCountryFactsGivenPresidentBreakIssuesJudgingTerribleShapesTaxesOfficeDisagreePresident ObamaExtensionsTax Breaks Author:Bernie Sanders
“Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.” CountryHardShowsPrinciplesJudgingConscienceFollowingSentencesTrialsPassingPassingsCardsOur CountryPatrioticPassing Out Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life. There is no act of my life on which I reflect with more pleasure. I have given to my country a judge equal to a Hole, Holt, or a Mansfield.” PeopleCountryStatesGivenPleasureUnitedUnited StatesJudgingEqualHoles Author:John Marshall
“We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.” KnowsWantCountryPresidentInterestSecurityPolicyExamplePositionJudgingLimitsJudgmentCongressDetermineOur CountryInherentInferiorsNational SecurityJudiciary Author:Alberto Gonzales
“It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.” PeopleIfsDoeCountryHappensPastLeftCasesRightsJudgingTradeGood SensePrecious Things Author:Michael Foot
“The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.... There should be, therefore, great resistance to ... redefining the category of rights deemed to be fundamental. Otherwise, the Judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority.” ShouldLittlesMadeCountryLawLanguageDealsRightsDesignJudgingAuthorityRootsConstitutionFundamentalsCourtResistanceVulnerableCategoriesJudiciaryConstitutional LawRedefining Author:Byron White
“I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That type of political pandering isn't meant for gymnastic Olympic events. It's meant for the Supreme Court.” ThinkingCountryFunnyPoliticalEventsJudgingTypeCourtSupremeScoreAffectedOlympicsSupreme CourtGymnasticsGymnastLondon Olympics Author:Craig Ferguson