Supreme Court Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Cornel West

  Greed, Decision, Goes On

  "Cornel West, A Fighter, Angers Obama Supporters". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Michele Norris, www.npr.org. October 24, 2011.

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• 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.

  Craig Ferguson

  Tacos, Court, Sour

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• It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect Roe v Wade. [Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

  Natalie Portman

  Justice, Abortion, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters, and there has never been any amendment or even a Supreme Court decision saying it's improper. - Samual Francis, Secession May Be Legal But Not Expedient, Conservative Chronicles
  If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Taken, Errors

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• I want a Supreme Court that doesn't always side with corporate interests.

  Hillary Clinton

  Want, Sides, Court

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the second 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2016.

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• It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

  Rod Parsley

  Marriage, Sex, Prayer

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• I would like the Supreme Court to understand that voting rights are still a big problem in many parts of our country [America], that we don't always do everything we can to make it possible for people of color and older people and young people to be able to exercise their franchise.

  Hillary Clinton

  Exercise, Rights, Color

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the second 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2016.

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

  Dan Abrams

  Decision, Argument, Boring

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

  Cliff Stearns

  Years, Justice, Religion

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• I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dark, Citizens United, Want

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the second 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2016.

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• The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

  Ted Olson

  Marriage, Rights, Usa

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• The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

  Ralph Neas

  Hype, Decision, President

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• I write to withdraw as a nominee to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. ... I am concerned that the confirmation process presents a burden for the White House and our staff that is not in the best interest of the country.

  Harriet Miers

  Country, Writing, White

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• Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

  Dale Carnegie

  Intelligent, Decision, United States

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.45, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.

  Judy Biggert

  Believe, Finals, Should

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• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  Patrick Leahy

  People, Needs, Nominations

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but it took until 1872 for it to be repealed. During the Grover Cleveland administration, Congress enacted the Income Tax Act of 1894. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1895. It took the Sixteenth Amendment (1913) to make permanent what the Framers feared -- today's income tax.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, Cleveland, Income

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• 'An order is an order' was not an excuse to do the wrong thing. You couldn't just blindly follow a government order ... This whole issue of should the Supreme Court be the final arbiter of what is or isn't constitutional, was settled at Nuremberg. People everywhere need to understand and need to follow that.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Government, Order

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• I want a Supreme Court that understands because you're wealthy and you can give more money to something doesn't mean you have any more rights or should have any more rights than anybody else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Rights, Should Have

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?

  Dave Barry

  Wall, Humorous, Rain

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• The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrangement in health insurance that endows their employers with the quasi-parental power to choose the options that employees may be granted in the market for health insurance.

  Uwe Reinhardt

  Long, Hobbies, World

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• We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

  Pete McCloskey

  Independence, Church, Separation

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• Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

  Cass Sunstein

  Law, Diversity, Political

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• In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

  James L. Buckley

  Decision, Speech, Firsts

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• There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

  David Frum

  America, People, Wonderful

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