Alone Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor

One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.

— Reuven Rivlin

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

— Mike DeWine

[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

If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything.

— Don Willett

I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

— Anonymous

Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere…

— John Marshall

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to…

— Samuel Alito

Selecting about 100 judges of the higher judiciary every year in a rational and fair manner is an onerous task requiring a full-time and…

— Prashant Bhushan

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the…

— Rose Bird

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