Judges Quotes · Page 7

President Obama and a small team of senior national security officials were in the unusual position of acting as al-Awlaki's jury, judges,…

— Peter Bergen

As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and…

— James Durbin

The judges are trying to make the sports as safe as possible and I was just sorry they thought it necessary to…

— Dave Schultz

My daughters have become little judges. If I do produce a baked item, they tut at the soggy bottom and advise me…

— Mel Giedroyc

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as…

— Aristotle

“Judges ought to remember that their office is to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.”

— Francis Bacon

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are…

— Arlen Specter

The judiciary is peopled by judges who are human, and being human, they are occasionally motivated by considerations other than an objective…

— Prashant Bhushan

While awaiting deportation proceedings, my parents remained in detention near Boston, so I could visit them. They would have liked to fight…

— Diane Guerrero

Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for…

— Adam Cohen

Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was…

— George Bernard Shaw

The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy…

— Oliver Ellsworth

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently -…

— Thomas Frank

The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality…

— Benjamin Wittes

The Musharraf government has declared martial law to settle scores with lawyers and judges. Hundreds of innocent Pakistanis have been rounded up.…

— Asma Jahangir

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence…

— Anonymous

All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner.

— Judy Sheindlin

Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional…

— Pat Robertson

Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court…

— Alan Young

One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations.

— Pat Buchanan

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges.…

— William Henry Moody

North Carolina wants its judges to be fair and impartial, and partisan politics has no place on the judges' bench.

— Roy Cooper

The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they…

— Michele Landis Dauber

Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way.

— Anne Applebaum

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

— Thomas Jefferson

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven…

— William Howard Taft

I really enjoyed judges critiques because I can always grow and improve from that. I don't think any of the judges are…

— Shirley Chung

We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious…

— Chris Christie

Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves.

— Wendy Long

The Ramaswami case and subsequent attempts to impeach judges have demonstrated the total impracticality of that instrument to discipline judges.

— Prashant Bhushan

If someone judges you don't hate them or step down to their level. Ignore them and brush it off otherwise judgmental people…

— Anonymous

I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a…

— Robert Kennedy

I am absolutely overjoyed to be joining 'Strictly.' I have so much respect for the other judges and hope to add my…

— Motsi Mabuse

Even with ex-fighters as judges, it doesn't mean they can score a fight, you'd still end up with debate and opinion.

— Callum Smith

In order to keep the judiciary independent of the executive, the constitution provided impeachment as the only method for disciplining errant judges.

— Prashant Bhushan

“When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Through the feigned fury of divine emotion, the wife of the great one will be badly wronged. Judges, wishing to condemn such…

— Nostradamus

Judges have a hard job. It's not just putting someone in jail or slapping someone on the wrist and giving them a…

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become…

— Jon Ronson