Law Quote by Richard Harris

[Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is best…

— Sam Brownback

We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal…

— Heather Brooke

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

— Newt Gingrich

[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The court's reputation is affected by what people say only if it seems to have a ring of fairness and authenticity.

— Prashant Bhushan

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Courts in America seem to be so political, and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to…

— Donald Trump

Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

— Jed S. Rakoff

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

— Michel Foucault

Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the…

— Charley Reese

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

— Helen Garner