Quotes About Justice

When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.

My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.

Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.

Every time I go to the judges, I never get it.

As I have consistently recommended, we desperately need to find more black judges, particularly females, who are chronically underrepresented in our courts across London and the U.K.

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

We should let people elect judges based on their experience and ability to do the job, not which party they pick.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.

At the end of the day, on the day of judgment day when everybody be judged, you're going to get your fair share.

No one will escape justice. It's a moral and judicial duty.

We have a problem with judicial activism in this country.

The lack of judicial accountability exemplified by the lack of a system of selecting judges and of dealing with complaints against them, has indeed led to the system gradually losing its integrity.

It is true that there have been excesses of judicial activism.

We all have trust in the judicial systems.

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

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

I have faith in the judicial system.

A corrupt judiciary is hardly likely to hold a corrupt executive to account.

Judiciary is where my passion is.

The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.

Independence of Judiciary means independence from Executive and Legislature, but not independence from accountability.

As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

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