Courts Quotations

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.

The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth.

The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users.

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.

No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.

I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.

They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them.

Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions.

The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

I love tennis. I've played it my whole life. Loved it since the age of three. I had an injury, so from the age of 13 to 24 I didn't play much. Then when I moved out to L.A., there were so many tennis courts that I rekindled the love.

The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

I thought about tennis. But the more I thought about the whole thing - lessons, equipment, going to the courts - I said screw it, I'm just going to go buy a pair of sneakers and go running.

The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana does not give anyone the right to deny services to anyone in this state. It is simply a balancing test used by our federal courts and jurisdictions across the country for more than two decades.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that's how it started. My mum said, 'Why don't you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?,' and that's how I started playing.

However, I keep reminding them that this issue is not a new issue that has come out for this election. This issue has been in the courts for two years and two months now.

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.

One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid 'legislating from the bench.'

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.

Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage.

By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

Untie the hands of state and federal judges and prosecutors, ... Give them options other than turning the courts into assembly lines that mass produce mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children.

We are pleased with this decision. We asked them to talk to us when they made this change, and they wouldn't. That forced us to go through the court system. And yet again, the courts have supported our position.

We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country.

When you take things to the courts you don't have the opportunity to engage the public in the process. You don't have the ability to build a movement.

There is no other church official in America who has a more documented record in the courts and elsewhere of aiding and abetting serial child rapists -- predator priests who are out there.

Until now I wasn't used to playing on hard courts, ... We don't have courts like this in Romania, we only have clay courts, and I don't know, this year I've started to play better and better on this kind of court, so I am feeling confident now and I am looking forward for the next matches and also for the US Open.

Whether it's the courts or regional offices of executive agencies, members of Congress want some control over how things are done in their states or districts. As long as they have some influence over the picks, they like the patronage system.

We're going to play a very good team that has one of the best front courts in this league. It won't be very easy for us.

We're going to get the French guys back over here, give them some wine and get these courts back in the shape they're supposed to be in.

Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.

We feel the courts in the end will see it our way, but we have to let that process go through.

We're in the process right now of judges and vigilantes -- people taking justice into their own hands and deciding to change the law without either the courts or the legislature acting.

Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.

We're ready to start moving things onto the Internet, but I need some direction. If we move into a temporary facility we need to do it in the next two or three months. I need some guidance. I need to keep the records safe, support the courts and give employees a safe environment to work in.

We're still seeing what the courts are doing with the current law, ... What I wanted to do with this hearing is lay the groundwork for whatever action we may think is appropriate.

We are not bothered by the threats that cases will be filed against us. If they're going to file cases now, let them go to the courts now. These are desperate moves by people who can't offer anything for the welfare of the people.

There are more people who fit into the class of elderly. The more people in the group, the more cases you'll have. The problem is a lot of bad age-discrimination cases ruin it for the rest of them. You do see a number of people claiming age discrimination with little merit. It sours the courts on age-discrimination cases.

There are more important things to do. And courts don't want to waste time and they'll say, 'work something out.'. . . And the prosecutor doesn't want to go after the fire company. It's not worth police energy. It would solve matters if they could clean up the legislation.

We really have not taken this seriously enough and not enough cases are being filed in the courts and not enough prosecutors are pursuing them.

The courts will take into consideration whether he promised to give you a share of the house so that you didn't buy your own place, but it's very woolly.

The courts will become involved with parents to see if the place is cleaned up. Get them parenting skills classes so they can learn to be better parents.

The courts were great, the balls were great, and the fans were great. No excuses. (Roddick) had to make the same adjustment. Antony served very well. These guys are all so good you have to be on top of your game every night.

There is clear repudiation of the government's absolute position that the courts have no role. The Supreme Court did offer the executive a real change to balance how much procedure the detainees would get, it's not that they have all the rights of a U.S. citizen in every court case, but it does absolutely reject the president's claim that it is only his choice who gets to go to court and when.

There are way too many drainage problems. We don't have enough courts and lawyers to deal with the issue.

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

When the history of the Supreme Court in the 20th century is written, there will be two great chief justices: Earl Warren and William Rehnquist. Both presided over courts that changed the law in a very dramatic way.

We need drug protection now -- not at some time in the future after the courts get through kicking it around.

We're not calling the people out as long as we see that Elian's case remains in the courts and the government is not moving to suddenly take Elian back to Cuba.

Last year we had a recruit in here, and all we had to show them was the blueprints. Now the courts have made us feel like we have had a home from Day 1.

So long as the civilian courts are open and functioning, American citizens arrested in the United States are entitled to due process protections provided by a traditional criminal trial,

She doesn't give much guidance to other courts in her rulings, there's a lack of consistency, distinctiveness. Often it seems her opinions are too narrow, reflecting only how it strikes just Justice O'Connor, what she personally thinks.

Missouri's highest courts and a jury of Marlin Gray's peers determined unequivocally that he should be held accountable for Julie and Robin Kerry's deaths, ... I support the sentence issued and affirmed by both Missouri and U.S. Courts and believe justice has been served. My thoughts and prayers are with family and friends who mourn the loss of Julie and Robin.

Missouri is a great example of a state that has taken substantive steps to fix its legal system. In the last year, Missouri has passed one of the most comprehensive legal reform packages in the country, including legislation that keeps people from shopping around the state for the friendliest courts in which to sue.

My intention to vote for Judge Roberts tomorrow should in no way be construed as a weather vane for how I might vote on the next nominee, ... In the past I have not hesitated to vote against several of the president's nominees to the Courts of Appeal when they carried the ideological and activist baggage that I believe would be disruptive to our society.

One may run away from the courts of other men, but where can one go to escape the Lord s Kingdom?

One by one they have slowly but surely been dismissed by the courts or withdrawn by the plaintiffs,

One idea, move the New Orleans courts wholesale to another city, even another state.

Obviously, we'd like to have more courts on campus. It stretches your mind sometimes to come up with creative ways to keep them all busy during practice. We don't want them to stand around. I want them to have fun, stay active and continue to improve.

None of these are easy questions. But most courts say it's not about what he did or didn't do or what she did or didn't do. It's about the rights of the child.

Now we have two full courts inside of the gym. We can have the varsity and JV on one, the freshmen on the other. It helps having everyone together.

Now the next question is, Can we get justice in Pennsylvania? I'm hoping that there's a little kernel of integrity left in the courts whereby we can. But the people, 12 million people, will be watching.

Naturally, there exist concerns about what activist courts might do to undermine these rights and the Defense of Marriage Act, ... But it is premature to amend the Constitution based upon a hypothetical scenario.

Nobody wants to pay royalties. They (the companies that have complained) have tried to go through several different avenues to get the courts to help them out when they couldn't negotiate lower royalty payments. This is just the latest salvo.

no excuse to break the law and show such flagrant contempt for the courts of British Columbia.

Nobody considers that a very healthy situation. You have a number of very high-profile, important cases coming this next term that, from the perspective of this administration, were decided incorrectly in the courts below. You need five justices to reverse. A 4-4 tie just means the decision below is affirmed.

I wish to state very strongly that the above reasons and others cited by the Attorney General through their lawyers in the London High Court are not sufficient or valid reasons justifying the ousting of jurisdiction of the Zambian courts in this matter,

If we do not protect our courts, our courts cannot protect us.

I don't know what the prosecution will ask for but the death penalty is still legal in Ethiopia. On a personal note that is not the penalty I would like to see applied, ... It is for the prosecution and courts to decide, but if I have any say on it I would prefer prison sentences rather than death sentences.

I am excited, and I applaud the city council for its creativity and bold decision to put the issue squarely before the courts in a way that is not reckless.

I believe the second largest concern in the community, besides moving out of downtown, is fragmenting the county services. People want one-stop shopping. People like all their service related things together, and we need to think about simplifying not fragmenting that. I've talked with several judges and they would like to see the courts together with a common jury pool.

I believe that in a case such as this, the legislative branch, the executive branch, ought to err on the side of life, which we have, ... And now we'll watch the courts make their decisions.

Chinese courts at various levels strictly followed the principle of meting out penalty to the guilty in accordance with the law, and setting the innocent free in time, and pronounced 2, 162 criminal defendants innocent in year 2005.

Given that the Court has not agreed to rehear a decision in over 50 years, this is not a huge surprise. But the denial makes it crystal clear that since the Supreme Court will not protect home and small business owners, it is now up to state legislatures and state courts to protect people from eminent domain abuse.

I don't think we want to call anything until the courts have their final say,

For the sixth time in five years, federal courts have now blocked or struck down these state and local laws seeking to regulate the sale of games to minors based on their content.

GM would continue to be constructive and cooperate with the courts and with Delphi and the unions to reach a consensual agreement.

Global warming is real, it's happening now and President Bush has the legal authority to regulate the pollution that's causing it. He just doesn't want to. The Supreme Court must overturn the lower courts judicial activism and give this case a proper hearing.

If the courts disagree, ... maybe it isn't so cut and dried.

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

If the administrative phase is conducted in two different courts and it leads to two different verdicts, then prudence and judicial economy would tell us that these proceedings should be consolidated into one court. It only makes sense.

He will be in grave danger as long as he remains in the country. The fundamentalists will seek to kill him regardless of what the courts say. He is an apostate and must be killed according to Islamic law.

He feels vindicated by knowing the courts have recognized he had a First Amendment right to display the Confederate flag as a reflection of his Southern heritage and traditions that he viewed as important.

He fired the shots across the bow of Congress, and he has gotten the lower courts to pay attention to these things.

He missed an opportunity to name somebody to the courts with the spirit of Rosa Parks, with diversity and minority rights.

This was not the very finest quality of weaving with gold thread, of the kind that was being produced for the leading courts of the day by the Brussels workshops. Rather, it reflects the sort of medium-quality tapestries that the Florence workshops were producing at this time for use in the Medici palaces. Still, the pride they must have felt, knowing this would be destined to go to Como. Tapestry was such an important part of the theatrical presentation of the day. It was the whole stage set against which the formal side of life was acted out.

Whatever the ruling party?s intentions, this reform will increase the vulnerability of Argentina?s courts to political pressure. It's a big disappointment given all that this government has done to restore the credibility of Argentine justice and strengthen the rule of law.