Biden Quote by Conrad Black

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.

— Stephen Breyer

When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you…

— Ibn Hazm

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that in Islamic…

— Khaled Abou El Fadl

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.

— Dahlia Lithwick

“in our democratic societies, there is nothing that is not regulated. Arab jurists taught me something that I liked very much. They represent law…

— Anonymous

The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

— Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the…

— Benjamin Cardozo

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

— Anatole France

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor serves as a model Supreme Court justice, widely recognized as a jurist with practical values, a sense of the consequences…

— Patrick Leahy