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Court Quotes
"There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court."
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"A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena."
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"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."
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"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."
"I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court."
"Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has."
"This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court."
"We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination."
"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
"The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases."
"Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court."
"If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall."
"It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay."
"What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court."
"I would not like to be the only woman on the court."
"Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something."
"I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial."
"We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone."
"The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address."
"I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night."
"Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them."
"There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court."
"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."
"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."
"In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court."
"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
"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."
"I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence."
"The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline.""
"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."
"In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked."
"He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications."
"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."
"My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity."
"If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him."
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