Supreme Court Quotes - Page 4

• I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel it's the role of the Congress and the president to push back. I mean I think it's important that they are understood as equal branches of government.

  Rick Santorum

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

  Cliff Sloan

  Moving, Unique, Law

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• Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.

  John G. Lake

  Jesus, Court, Discipleship

  John G. Lake (2012). “Living In God's Power”, p.107, Whitaker House

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• It is good to be back in the Peoples House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now belong to the executive branch. The Supreme Court has even ruled that I am the executive branchhead, heart, and hand.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Real, Heart, Hands

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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

  Art Rust, Jr.

  Depression, Baseball, War

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• And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

  Cecile Richards

  President, Cabinets, Court

  "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Jobs, Law, Justice

  "Sonia Sotomayor Faces Senate For Her Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. July 13, 2009.

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• Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.

  William Kristol

  Government, Obamacare, America

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• The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

  William Safire

  New York, Long, Wonderful

  "William Safire dies at 79; speechwriter and Pulitzer-winning columnist" by Joe Holley, www.latimes.com. September 28, 2009.

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• You've got Bush and Gore headed to the Supreme Court. You've got George W. Bush's intelligence will be pitted against Al Gore's honesty. This is more like a case for small claims court.

  Jay Leno

  Honesty, Als, Claims

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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

  Donna Leon

  Justice, Ruth, Nine

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• We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Politics, Constitution, Court

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

  Dick Gephardt

  Order, President, Overcoming

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• The fallout from the Supreme Court halfway killing Obamacare would likely be more serious than conservatives believe...Even their own base, which has been told relentlessly that Obamacare represents the end of the America they love, might start to demand a fix once it becomes clear just what they’re missing - and what all those blue states with their own exchanges are getting.

  Kevin Drum

  Believe, Blue, Obamacare

  "Killing Obamacare Halfway Is Worse For Republicans Than They Think" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. February 27, 2015.

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• The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Passion, Government, Hatred

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• A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.

  Robert Reich

  Real, Funny Things, People

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• Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.

  William F. Schulz

  Religious, Prayer, Powerful

  William F. Schulz (1992). “Finding time & other delicacies”

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• 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.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Book, America, Quality

  "The Supreme Court in the American System of Government". Book by Robert H. Jackson, p. 30, 1955.

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• While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Government, Sticks, Carrots

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• Since Vice President Al Gore is constantly making things up, it should come as no surprise that he wants Supreme Court justices who will do the same. As Gore put it, he will appoint judges who view the Constitution as a 'document that grows'.

  Ann Coulter

  Views, Justice, Judging

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• The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.

  Ari Fleischer

  President, Doe, Court

  "CNN Reliable Surces", www.cnn.com. June 1, 2003.

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• 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.

  Larry Flynt

  Community, Individual, Obscenity

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• So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

  Eric Alterman

  Mistake, Eggs, Decision

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• The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

  David Boies

  Past, Rights, Decision

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• After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

  Bob Beauprez

  Obamacare, Majority, Pages

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