Judicial excellence requires an understanding that the law is more than an intellectual game and more than a mental exercise. He or… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
When you can say, I get up in the morning to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution, it keeps people… — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I remain mindful that the role of a judge is a limited one and that judges can't solve every problem. But at… — David Stras Copy Share Image
The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse.… — Nina Totenberg Copy Share Image
With regard to the Constitution, the power to create 'a uniform rule of naturalization' does not rest in Article II, but in… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
The Court's decision reflects the philosophy that judges should endure whatever interpretive distortions it takes in order to correct a supposed flaw… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen,… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress.… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the… — John Barrasso Copy Share Image
There is one way, only one way to solve it, and that is through legislation. It cannot be through an unconstitutional executive… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
In 2017, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff who was ordered by a federal court to stop racially profiling and was… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
How exactly the obstruction-of-justice statutes interact with the president's broad powers to supervise the executive branch under Article II of the Constitution… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining… — John Shattuck Copy Share Image
None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
My ascension as interim president is based on Article 233 of the Venezuelan Constitution, according to which, if at the outset of… — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
There is a struggle going on in the country over who we are as a people. Over the rule of law, over… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The Court’s controversial decisions spurred a generation-long anticrime backlash that countered its decisions with policies that gave police more power, more discretion,… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks,… — Don Young Copy Share Image
The Wisconsin senator gets up and says out loud what half of the country is thinking and talks about every day. This… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
A judge said that all his experience, both as counsel and judge, had been spent sorting out the difficulties of people who,… — Gilbert Harding Copy Share Image
“But let us be sure of something. We are not sheep. This government is ours, and it is meant to serve our… — Gary Hansen Copy Share Image
The Constitution places the responsibility on Congress for setting the size of the U.S. military, ensuring sufficient resources are in place to… — Mac Thornberry Copy Share Image
Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image