John Roberts Judicial Quotations

Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.

I think if you've looked at what I've done since I took the judicial oath, that should convince you that I'm not an ideologue.

Well, I have said that I do not have an overarching judicial philosophy that I bring to every case.

They apply and decide cases according to the judicial process, not on the basis of promises made earlier to get elected or promises made earlier to get confirmed,

This is a case in which our supposed litigation program to encourage judicial restraint did not get off the ground, and should have,

I do not have an over-arching judicial philosophy, ... I have no agenda.

a judge's judicial work is not influenced...by his sense, sharp or vague, of where justice lies in respect to the great issues of his time.