The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If you leave out the magnetic stardom of sportsmen and actors, middle-class India today really has just two heroes - the army… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states.… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
I applaud the fact that the president has reached out to the members of Judiciary Committee. And I applaud. the fact that… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake.… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
I think that Congress's ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary. — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
A corrupt judiciary is hardly likely to hold a corrupt executive to account. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is… — Joseph Estrada Copy Share Image
Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
What we are lacking in Burma is an independence effective judiciary, and unless we have all three of the democratic institutions -… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each… — John Marshall Copy Share Image