Court Quotes - Page 37

• So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

  Floyd Abrams

  Views, Freedom Of Speech, Important

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.

  Tyson Chandler

  "Serby’s Sunday Q&A with … Tyson Chandler". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. December 18, 2011.

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• If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?

  Johnnie Cochran

  Lying, Messages, Firsts

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• Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.

  Ray Comfort

  Unique, Men, Years

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• Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

  Samuel Dash

  Perception, Needs, Ease

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• Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.

  Willem Dafoe

  Crazy, Successful, Good Movie

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

  Larry Flynt

  Community, Individual, Obscenity

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• My ultimate game - or at least one I would really like to see - would be something where it was like the beginning of George R. R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones', where you're Ned Stark, and you know that one of your friends has been murdered, and you go to the capital city and you have to navigate this web of court intrigue.

  Austin Grossman

  Cities, Games, Would Be

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• People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.

  Harold H. Greene

  People, Trying, Intimidated

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• Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

  John Garamendi

  United States, Constitution, Guilty

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• The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.

  Ari Fleischer

  President, Doe, Cases

  "CNN Reliable Surces", www.cnn.com. June 1, 2003.

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• I can assure the Court that I have no intention and there is no risk of my reactivating the Megaupload.com website or establishing a similar Internet-based business during the period until the resolution of the extradition proceedings

  Kim Dotcom

  Business, Risk, Internet

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• The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on. But we know what's really involved, dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that.

  Tom Lehrer

  Fun, Dirty, Book

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• The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

  Joni Mitchell

  Land, Games, Politics

  Song: The Windfall, Album: Night Ride Home

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• I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.

  Sue Wicks

  Basketball, Sports, Believe

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• Since Vice President Al Gore is constantly making things up, it should come as no surprise that he wants Supreme Court justices who will do the same. As Gore put it, he will appoint judges who view the Constitution as a 'document that grows'.

  Ann Coulter

  Views, Justice, Judging

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• Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.

  Holly Sklar

  Drinking, School, Vaccines

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• I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

  Michael Chang

  Blow, Thinking, Feet

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• The first thing I became interested in in terms of 'Brain Storm' was neuroscience, and that is like saying you're interested in the universe. So ultimately I knew if I was going to handle this in a fictional format, I would have to take a subsection of neuroscience, and that turned out to be the use of neuroscience in criminal courts.

  Richard Dooling

  Brain, Storm, Criminals

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• I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape.

  Dwight Howard

  Get Better, Weight, Body

  Interview with Trey Kerby, sports.yahoo.com. March 31, 2010.

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• While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Government, Sticks, Carrots

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• I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

  Sebastian Junger

  Dirty, Thinking, Objectivity

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.

  Anna Kournikova

  People, Want, Scene

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• Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.

  William Kristol

  Government, Obamacare, America

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• While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6 is crucial. If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed - and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president.

  William Kristol

  Nice, Obamacare, Judging

  "Trust the People". www.weeklystandard.com. June 11, 2012.

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