63 Best Judiciary Quotes And Sayings
Judiciary is the judicial authorities of a country; judges collectively.
1. Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.
Diane Watson
2. A lot of times, as an actor, especially a TV or film actor, you don’t get a lot of interaction, or you don’t get the feeling you are actually touching someone, or someone actually cares about what you do.
Christopher Judge
3. Im a very independent girl and some people think I’m weird because of it but that doesnt bother me. Just because I’m not afraid to stand up for what I believe in when everyone else is sitting down, thats no reason to follow the crowd. Because maybe, just maybe, Ill make someones life better because I wasnt afraid.
Anonymous
4. Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents, according to circumstances
Anonymous
5. The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.
Rose Bird
6. The judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them.
Alexander Hamilton
7. The qualities that one should look for in a judge are a burning desire to be fair and impartial; the courage to uphold the law and strike down injustice; compassion, coupled with an understanding of human frailties; and lastly, love for the law.
Wee Chong Jin
8. Because the act fatally compromises the independence of the judiciary and hopelessly blurs the line between the role of our courts and law enforcement, we have no choice but to declare the act unconstitutional.
Justice Barry Albin
9. God doesn't judge dark skin. He judges dark hearts
Anonymous
10. I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I’m quite confident at the end of the day that we’ll know what facts are in this particular case.
Alberto Gonzales
11. Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.’ Wouldn’t they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
Newt Gingrich
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12. Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary (Supreme Court and the 24 High Courts), the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. Government must have a say
Anonymous
13. The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy – a philosophy that represent mainstream America.
Jay Alan Sekulow
14. They've essentially been found guilty before even going to court. It's just a symptom of how bad the entire judicial system is.
Jocelyn McCalla
15. It’s just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.
Jodi Picoult
16. 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.
Bill Johnson
17. The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body.
Alexander Hamilton
18. The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please.
Thomas Jefferson
19. The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.
Sandra Day O'Connor
20. I don't think there's any short-term political gain that warrants undermining the independence of our judiciary.
Rep. Michael Kainen
21. If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President’s judicial nominees.
John Cornyn
22. The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.
Giulio Andreotti
23. As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.
Norman Lamm
24. As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.
Sonia Sotomayor
25. The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.
Arundhati Roy
26. It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.
Conrad Black
27. People are corrupt – the Politicians, the Police, the Bureaucrats, the Judiciary and other government servants just take care of their interests
Anonymous
28. The word was the circuit judges did not like getting those letters and resented the political intrusion into the judiciary. It may have cost him the opportunity to get this job.
Judge Wiley Edmondson
29. Led the federal judiciary with great dignity and clarity … Through it all, he displayed honor and conviction, a love of the law and a love for his country.
Harry Reld
30. Old lady judges watch people in pairsLimited in sex, they dareTo push fake morals, insult and stareWhile money doesn t talk, it swears Obsecinity, who really cares propaganda, all is phony.
Bob Dylan
31. The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy – a philosophy that represents mainstream America.
Jay Alan Sekulow
32. The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.
James Toback
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33. So long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.
John Rutledge
34. And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.
Stephen Breyer
35. My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice the independent judiciary.
Hans Frank
36. The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.
Aung San Suu Kyi
37. The judicial methods used by the Communists in our day are the same as those of the Holy Inquisition. To secure the Reign of Terror, the Communists are as brutal as the Christian Church was during a long period of thirteen hundred years, for the same end. Christianity and Communism, – the Judaic Twins – in merciless brutality do not differ from each other. – The history book of the Holy Inquisition became the textbook of the Communist secret police.
Anton U. Brown
38. This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted.
Russ Feingold
39. I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.
Bob Woodward
40. We brought those cases because we realized that the truth is the engine of our judicial system. We didn’t get the straight story, and we had to – had to – act.
Patrick Fitzgerald
41. Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.
Anonymous
42. The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
Caroline Kennedy
43. Could have a tremendous impact on the judiciary well into the 21st century.
Ralph Neas
44. Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence
Bryant McGill
45. And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.
Sibel Edmonds
46. I stand before the Court of the Judiciary because I've done my oath. I've kept my oath. I have acknowledged God as the moral foundation of our law.
Roy Moore
47. The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared.
Jo Bonner
48. Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.
Ron Kind
49. All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
Andrew Jackson
50. Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
Phyllis Schlafly
51. The senators who want to serve on (the Judiciary Committee) tend to be very ideologically driven and know their own minds. They are either very strong progressives or very deep conservatives.
Jamin Raskin
52. I’ve been a member of the Judiciary Committee for 20 years, and chairman for 12 years. This is the first time that we’ve ever had a letter or any type of direct report from a member of the Supreme Court regarding misconduct taking place at the Supreme Court. It’s extraordinary.
Michael Lawlor
53. Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
Ernest Istook
54. In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can’t mean that in the judicial context or we’re in real trouble.
Anthony Kennedy
55. Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be… a goal of reporters today.
John Ensign
56. The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as a judiciary. He is absolute head of government, legislator and supreme judge in the church. If he wanted to, he could authorize contraception over night, permit the marriage of priests, make possible the ordination of women and allow eucharistic fellowship with this Protestant churches. What would a Pope do who acted in the spirit of Obama?
Hans Küng
57. We have to do everything we can to maintain the independence of the judiciary and to stress that court decisions, to the absolute extent possible, be decided based upon the law and not the policy views of individual justices,
Jon Kyl
58. The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac
59. While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash
60. All roads are good, if they lead to justice.
Stefan Zweig
61. If the legislative and executive authorities are one institution, there will be no freedom. There won’t be freedom anyway if the judiciary body is not separated from the legislative and executive authorities
Montesquieu
62. It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.
Felix Frankfurter
63. Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
Lamar S. Smith