Court Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.

One does not greet the Queen of the Seelie Court with the barbarous human 'hello'.

That's the fundamental question. Do we have a check and balance system? Do we have three equal branches or do we have one supreme branch, not just the Supreme Court? That's the fundamental question.

The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

I don't know much about the Supreme Court. If it's anything like the Supreme Taco, it's like a regular court, but with extra sour cream.

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?

To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to figure out what the law is and why.

I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

Most people in America don't believe that "God" is a dirty word, but the sad fact is that some Americans are left to wonder whether the Supreme Court might have greater regard for it if it was.

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

I consider myself a court jester - motivator.

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

Just one Bush justice on the court means left-wingers might have to start actually winning votes for their wacky ideas; a prescription for liberal extinction.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

The Court should never be influenced by the weather of the day but inevitably they will be influenced by the climate of the era.

There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

A man up in front of a judge says "I don't recognise this court." "Why not?" "It's been redecorated since the last time I was here."

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

My problem is trying to find the desire to fight and be on the court ready to fight. For a few weeks, I haven't felt like I wanted to be on the court. That's the problem.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

They've come to overthrow the court, sir!