Court Quotes

My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

I gotta quit smoking, doctor's orders, and the drinking, court orders.

I'll tell you how to solve this abortion thing...Those unwanted babies...? Leave about 12 of them on the Supreme Court steps.

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.

I just want to get on the court.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.

This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.

In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.

A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.