Ruling Quotes by Nina Totenberg

If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

— Nina Totenberg

I didnt know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

— Nina Totenberg

Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or…

— Nina Totenberg

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

— Nina Totenberg

Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it…

— Nina Totenberg

Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our…

— Nina Totenberg

What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked…

— Nina Totenberg

Throughout our history, the Supreme Court has entered national crises, often preventing presidents from doing what they want to do. Indeed, sometimes the court's…

— Nina Totenberg

[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is…

— Nina Totenberg

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.

— Nina Totenberg

I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well,…

— Nina Totenberg

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

— Nina Totenberg