Court Quotes - Page 20

• When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it, one discovers without difficulty that a more immense judicial power has never been constituted in any people.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Organization, People, Judicial Power

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.141, University of Chicago Press

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• The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election . . . They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Powerful, Mean, Distribution Of Power

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses... This little coterie...runs our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...seizes...our executive officers...legislative bodies...schools... courts...newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.

  John Francis Hylan

  Running, Selfish, Real

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• There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would stand up in a court of law. Some people believe that science needs better tools to quantify what consciousness is. Perhaps when we discover what consciousness is we will be on the road to providing absolute scientific evidence that there is life after death.

  Jean Ritchie

  Believe, Law, People

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• It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.

  Kim Gandy

  Fighting, Battle, Defeat

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• Mental health courts exist because the system has failed.
  If these people were being treated,
  they wouldn't end up with misdemeanor charges or
  felony charges against them in the first place.
  The very existence of mental health courts is really an
  indication of the system's failure.

  E. Fuller Torrey

  People, Firsts, Mental Health

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• It is a reality that we have complete control of organised Christianity. Almost anywhere, completely. We 'Jews' must become lawyers so we could control and strangle the courts, we should become teachers and leaders in all the churches.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Teacher, Reality, Leader

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• Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.

  Jelena Jankovic

  Photographer, Angle, Flattering

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• My problem is trying to find the desire to fight and be on the court ready to fight. For a few weeks, I haven't felt like I wanted to be on the court. That's the problem.

  Sara Errani

  Fighting, Desire, Trying

  "U.S. Open results, Aug. 29". www.sfgate.com. August 30, 2013.

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• Watch out Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and supreme court appointments and Rove-style politics, we're coming in there to shake things up!

  Tom Toles

  Issues, Style, Energy

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• I am not that far away from becoming the No. 1 player in the world. I am only around 1,000 points away from achieving it. The key will be whether I can play better and more consistently on hard courts. If I continue to play well in the European clay court season and then take that form to the hardcourts in the United Sates, I could finish the year as the world No. 1.

  Juan Carlos Ferrero

  Player, Keys, Years

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• I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Heart, Men, Eggs

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• Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With deft prose and exquisite detail, Stachniak has resurrected one of the most compelling ages in history. Turn off the phones and lock the doors—you will not put it down.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Heart, Doors, Phones

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• A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Inspirational, Basketball, Lying

  "Ryan Seacrest: Lord of Hosts" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2009.

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• Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

  Barbara Kruger

  Differences, Doubt, Belief

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• This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.

  Rosario Dawson

  Generations, Embrace, Accepting

  "The Future Has Voted" by Rosario Dawson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.

  Josh Brolin

  Girlfriend, Kids, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

  Debra Messing

  Watches, Tvs, Litigators

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• We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior high school about how we have three branches of government, and we have checks and balances, and what a lovely system. No. The changes, important changes that we've had in history, have not come from those three branches of government. They have reacted to social movements.

  Howard Zinn

  School, Government, Lovely

  "Howard Zinn Talks to Social Studies Teachers". Speech at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Houston, zinnedproject.org. November 16, 2008.

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• If I’m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s promises of a year ago have gone unfulfilled, I see that perhaps for a second time, the court’s inability to mete out justice in a blind fashion, why shouldn’t I vent my anger?

  Bryant Gumbel

  Fashion, Men, Years

  "The Race Card as Get Out of Jail Free Card: The 'Why Shouldn’t I?' Defense". "Today", archive.mrc.org. April 15, 1993.

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• I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasn’t raised in the English court. She was in the French court and Hapsburg court. She has a continental exotic quality to her. She’s quite a fiery woman and incredibly intelligent. So I think Anne really stood out – fire and intelligence and boldness – in comparison to the English roses that were flopping around court, she would’ve stood out. And Henry noticed that.

  Natalie Dormer

  Thinking, Intelligent, Fire

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• The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Powerful, Years, Land

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• The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

  Charlie Daniels

  Obamacare, America, Socialist Government

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• The state has a right to do that [outlaw contraceptives], I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statutes they have. That is the thing I have said about the activism of the Supreme Court, they are creating right, and they should be left up to the people to decide.

  Rick Santorum

  Creating, People, Outlaw

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• When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

  Helen McCrory

  Mother, Morning, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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