Quotes About Authority

In a nation based on the 'consent of the governed,' judges are supposed to apply the laws the people have assented to.

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

I am a great admirer of most of the judges in Britain.

Our role as judges is to interpret the law.

Judges should decide legal disputes. Judges should not make law.

Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way.

Leadership is about good and sound judgment.

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

I have often said there are few responsibilities more important than governors making judicial appointments.

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

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

A president shouldn't tell the judiciary what to do.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

My loyalty is to the family. Donald Trump says 'Jump;' I say, 'How high?' Then I give him my opinion of where I should jump to, and he says, 'Go do it.'

In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.

Knowing when and where to sit is something every young executive should learn. A junior person who comes barging into a room and takes any seat he wants catches the disapproving eye of senior management.

God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals.

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

I've led a grand jury.

I think people need to stop looking at trying to be the judge, the jury and executioner and let the system do its job.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

I think leadership is just something that comes really natural to me.