Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American judge Thomas B. Griffith.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Thomas Beall Griffith is a former federal judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before his appointment to the bench he was Senate Legal Counsel, the chief legal officer of the United States Senate. In November 2011, Griffith was included on The New Republic's list of Washington's most powerful, but least famous, people. In April 2021, President Joe Biden named Griffith to the new Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies.
Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a snack bar . . . and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.
Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 PM presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press.