Court Quotes

This Court repeatedly has recognized that the whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife belongs to the laws of the States and not to the laws of the United States.

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.

People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Our strategy was to give Judge Hoffman a heart attack. We gave the court system a heart attack, which is even better.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

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.

I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

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

A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone.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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV

In 1962 (Engel v. Vitale), the Supreme Court explained that the word 'church' would no longer mean a federally established denomination; it would now mean a religious activity in public.

I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it.

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit

But normally when you talk to yourself [on court] you say; 'I love you, you're a good guy, but don't miss next time, okay.'

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.