Judiciary Quotes

“Judicial activism is a threat to the rule of law and the separation of powers.”

“A judge can't have any agenda. A judge can't have any ideology. A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case.”

“There's a need to reform appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court, and I'm not the only one who's noticed.”

“It is the province of the judges to declare what the law is.”

“A judge who announces a decision must be able to demonstrate that he began from recognized legal principles and reasoned in an intellectually coherent and politically neutral way to his result.”

“And I think the judiciary has a very important role to play in protecting minorities, in protecting individuals, in protecting people who don't have a lot of power.”

“I think that the right way to think about it is that the courts have a very limited role in reviewing the president's wartime decisions.”

“Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.”

“Judicial modesty is the view that judges should hesitate to strike down laws unless they are clearly unconstitutional.”

“It is important that we have a Supreme Court that is not seen as a political arm of any one party.”

“The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be the popular theme of the day.”

“Judges are not politicians, even when they come to the bench by a political process.”

“I am going to give the nominee the benefit of the doubt.”

“I am not a person who is a doctrinaire person, who has an agenda that she is trying to advance.”

“What my political views or my political preferences are is something that I would withhold; it's not something that I would share.”

“Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern.”

“The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying a law that someone else has made.”

“A judge's job is to interpret the law, not to make it.”

“I have no view of what the law should be. I have a view of what the law is.”

“We have a court that has just gone crazy.”