Judicial Quotes - Page 3

• The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the new economic opportunities and provided the framework for a judicial system to protect and encourage productive economic activity

  Douglass North

  Opportunity, Men, Rights

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• I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Independent, Iran, Law

  "NPR Interviews Mahmoud Ahmadinejad". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 24, 2009.

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• The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Strong, Stupid, Arrogant

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• Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Mexican, Democracy, Mexico

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• The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

  Leopoldo Lopez

  Fundamentals, Problem, Judicial System

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• Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

  Ernest Istook

  America, Activism, Traditional

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• The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Destiny, Decision

  "The Path of the Law" (1897)

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• If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.

  Robin Hayes

  Fall, People, Judicial Review

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• Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.

  John Ensign

  Justice, Goal, Today

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• I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will not, so long as we allow a review of the judicial processes that takes place here in some other tribunal where obviously undue influence cannot be brought to bear. As long as governments are wise enough to leave alone the rights of appeal to some superior body outside Singapore, then there must be a higher degree of confidence in the integrity of our judicial process. This is most important.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Wise, Integrity, Rights

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• Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

  Stockwell Day

  Challenges, Activism, Parliamentary System

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• An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

  DMX

  Presumption Of Innocence, Important, Fundamentals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Judging, Use, Embrace

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• My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Philosophy, Law, Fidelity

  "Sotomayor To Answer Judiciary Panel's Questions". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 14, 2009.

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• As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each must in the exercise of its functions be guided by the text of the Constitution according to its own interpretation of it.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Support, United States

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.349

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• Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness or judicial research. They are instruments of a practical nature, founded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings.

  Joseph Story

  Philosophical, Exercise, Expression

  Joseph Story (1851). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.322

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• On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert forever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve.

  James Madison

  Forever, Judicial Power, Might

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

  Newt Gingrich

  Men, White, Racism

  FaceBook post by Newt Gingrich from May 27, 2009

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• Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration has suffered. It is the poor, the sick, the ignorant, the powerless, and the hated who are executed.

  Ramsey Clark

  Sick, Ignorant, Rehabilitation

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• Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.

  Auberon Waugh

  Long, Evil, Trying

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• The Community Relations Service would be another pro-civil rights Federal agency attempting to make people do what the policy of the Federal Government demanded that they do. Moreover, in title II of the bill, this Service is made an agent of the court without due thought as to the effect on legal and judicial procedures.

  John Sparkman

  Agency, Rights, Government

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• In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

  Gijs de Vries

  Fighting, Agency, Police

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• Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

  George Will

  Law, Democracy, Majority

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• Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mean, Different Experiences, Merit

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• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  Gary Bauer

  Empathy, Principles, Virtue

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