Top 990 Judges Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.

To see the world is to judge the judges.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

I know many judges who are homosexual.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

The debate over judicial nominations is a debate over the judiciary itself. It is a debate over how much power unelected judges should have in our system of government, how much control judges should have over a written constitution that belongs to the people.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs.

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

Our role as judges is to interpret the law.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time.

While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense concealed the real goal - getting judges who will ratify an ever-expanding scope of the power of the federal government and an ever-declining restraint by the Constitution of the United States. This is consistent with everything else that Obama has done in office and is consistent with his decades-long track record of alliances with people who reject the fundamentals of American society.

There can be no activist judges from any political party.

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

Hell is full of high court judges.

Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!

Maybe judges like fighters who run.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice." It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.

There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.

My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.

It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends.

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.

We want to let our play be the judges.

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

No one ever judges their own self.

Wise judges are we of each other!

I always look for judges who respect precedent.

your judgement judges you and defines you

I can't control what the judges give me.

We are often harsher judges than God himself.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

Judges don't age; time decorates them.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!

I am a great admirer of most of the judges in Britain.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

The media was, 'Oh my God, you're gay,' and I'm like yes -- I've been out my whole life to my family and friends. Everyone in the skating community knew. But just because I won the national title, it's like, 'Oh, my God, you're gay.' The judges would say, 'You have to tone down your costumes, your choreography,' and I'm like, 'No . . .' I wanted to skate for the audiences, not for the judges.

When conservative judges strike down laws, it's because of what's in the Constitution. When liberal judges strike down laws (or impose new laws), it's because of what's in the New York Times

Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable. Their common view that life is expendable explains the left's embrace abortion-on-demand and why the Islamists don't hesitate to deploy their own children for homicide bombings.

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

And he never judges someone else's suffering.

When we love, it is the heart that judges.

God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Wit has as few true judges as painting.

God judges what we give by what we keep.

Judges are appointed often through the political process.

Remember when John Roberts was seeking confirmation of the Supreme Court, and he said judges should be just like umpires, just calling balls and strikes? Well, turnabout is fair play. What baseball needs behind the plate are umpires like those judges who are called strict constructionists, which means you follow subtle law to the letter.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes.

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.

I don't like to leave anything in the hands of the judges.