Quotes About Law

What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court.

I was interested in law and wanted to be a Supreme Court judge. We see so many pending cases in India and people are not getting justice.

The Supreme Court has been very clear: when it comes to religious discrimination, you can take intent into consideration.

These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

As I have said before, that Federal Penal Code could never have been enacted into law if we had had a responsible press who was willing to tell the American people the truth about what it actually provides. Nor would we have had a bill had it not been for the United States Supreme Court.

For me, there can be no higher public service than serving as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.

As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

I don't think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court.

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

You just never know what the Supreme Court is going to do.

On the whole, we think of our consumers - other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it's better to have it clearer than confusing.

I have great respect for Sandra Day O'Connor. She has broken so many barriers for women in the law, and was a master negotiator and pragmatist in her days on the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.

Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.

In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.

I would love to get Chief Justice John Roberts for an interview. I think that would be fascinating, I think that Supreme Court nominees should do more interviews.

Stability in law - particularly constitutional law - is critically important; the Supreme Court would do well to remember that.