Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Nina Totenberg

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American correspondent Nina Totenberg.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Nina Totenberg is an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) focusing primarily on the activities and politics of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her reports air regularly on NPR's news magazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. From 1992 to 2013, she was also a panelist on the syndicated TV political commentary show Inside Washington.

American - Correspondent | Born: January 14, 1944

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If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

Nina Totenberg

I didnt know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

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Throughout our history, the Supreme Court has entered national crises, often preventing presidents from doing what they want to do. Indeed, sometimes the court's verdicts are not vindicated by history. And yet presidents have complied with those rulings.

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[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.

Nina Totenberg

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.

Nina Totenberg

I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.

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Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.

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I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

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Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our system of laws depends on lowly citizens and presidents abiding by court rulings.

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What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.

Nina Totenberg

[On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world.

Nina Totenberg

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Nina Totenberg

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