John Roberts Quotations | Page 3

I, John Roberts, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States...,

Again, it is the obligation of the courts to decide particular cases, ... Often that means acting on the side of justice as we understand it, enforcing the Bill of Rights, enforcing the equal protection clause.

In certain areas - busing and quotas, for example - it makes eminent sense to pursue legislation to guarantee that our policies cannot be easily undone,

I know there are people of strongly held views on both sides of the issue ... And I know that the responsibility of a judge confronting this issue is to decide the case according to the rule of law consistent with the precedents, not to take sides in the dispute as a matter of policy, but to decide it according to the law.

Individual investors tend to trade in 100-share increments. It will be more affordable for individual investors, ... It's not as significant for 3M as it would be for a smaller-cap stocks because it's a very large liquid name.

I'm certainly not an expert in the area and haven't followed and have no way of evaluating the relative effectiveness of the law as amended or the law as it was prior to 1982.

If particular precedents have proven to be unworkable, they don't lead to predictable results, they're difficult to apply, that's one factor supporting reconsideration.

I'll be bound to follow the Supreme Court precedent regardless of what type of constructionist I might be,

I'm very much aware that if I am confirmed, I would succeed a man I deeply respect and admire, a man who has been very kind to me for 25 years,

I have no platform, ... I come before the committee with no agenda.

I have no platform. Judges are not politicians who can promise to do certain things in exchange for votes, ... Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them.

I'm free to chase anything that moves, and a lot of things that don't move. The opportunities are boundless. I am, at my very core, a reporter.

I have no agenda, but I do have a commitment. If I am confirmed, I will confront every case with an open mind.

I have no agenda but I do have a commitment. If I am confirmed, I will confront every case with an open mind.

If you look at my record on the question of affirmative action, yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas. Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action.

If you look at Turkey, it's surrounded by energy producers.

Oh. Well, the existing Voting Rights Act ? the constitutionality has been upheld. And I don't have any issue with that.

So far, it has been a pretty wild ride.

I'm not standing for election and it is contrary to the role of judges in our society to say that this judge should go on the bench because this is his or her position and those are the positions they're going to apply,

I'm not going to consider issues like that in the context as a father, or a husband or anything else.

Students and faculty are free to associate to voice their disapproval of the military's message.

The biggest problem with the Sunshine Law is there are no penalties for violations, Wherever there?s a penalty, there will be two or three loopholes.

The bill of rights remains the same, and the obligation of the Court to protect those basic liberties in times of peace and in times of war and in times of stress and in times of calm, that doesn't change,

The bond market's behaving like the world has come to an end,

I try to be a leader out there. I get so into the game that sometimes I act like an idiot, sometimes I am really loud, sometimes I am quiet. It just depends on the situation. I definitely wear my emotions on my sleeve, but it is because I just want to win.

allows the judge to incorporate his or her own personal preferences, cloak them with the authority of precedent -- because they're finding precedent in foreign law -- and use that to determine the meaning of the Constitution.

the No. 2 story instead of the No. 1.

The notion that that was my view is totally inconsistent and rebutted by my life. I married a lawyer. I was raised with three sisters who work outside the home. I have a daughter for whom I will insist at every turn that she has equal citizenship rights with her brother.

the next nomination will be a good deal more contentious.

It's settled as a precedent of the court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis,

It's been pretty quiet. I just think the market's going to continue to leak here.

that's a misuse of precedent, not a correct use of precedent.

It?s just about impossible to be in office and not do it.

it has to be in the context of the case . . . they don't have a license to go out and decide, 'I think this is an injustice and so I'm going to do something to fix it.'

If there was going to be a change, and it appears inevitable there was going to be a change, I think people are glad it's this change. He's a consumer of CBS News. During 9/11, during the hurricanes, he's made sure there was time in his sports broadcasts for news breaks.

I think our defense really set up the run. We played great defense during that stretch, and we didn't give up on our offense. Our shots weren't falling, and then we started hitting again.

his elevation to the court would be a shift away from equality.

I have reviewed the testimony and have no objection to it. Although for the sake of any members of the subcommittee who may be in attendance, I hope that Mr. Brandemuhl is a fast reader.

I hope my answer would be the same, Senator,

but if you don't have compassion, then how can you really be a leader of the American people?

Before you begin, let's make sure we even have a case, ... Your appeal was filed late, right?

been able to make progress in the area of rights, and not had just empty paper promises.

honored and humbled at the confidence that the president has shown in me. And I am very much aware that if I am confirmed I would succeed a man I deeply respect and admire, a man who has been very kind to me for 25 years.

They've played together for a while. They have a feel for each other, and I would match those three up against any three defenders in the state.

They like to switch defenses a lot. They also look like a good 3-point shooting team, so we will need to do a good job of guarding the perimeter.

It was my job to articulate the administration policy,

Anything you say can and will be used against you.

appreciate the difference in institutional competence between the legislature and the courts.

the most precious rights we have as Americans.

Any effort to improve relations between the Executive Branch and the members of the Supreme Court must be undertaken with extreme care to ensure that there is no appearance of an effort to affect the deliberations or decisions of the Justices, ... The dignity of the Court must also be maintained, and the Justices should under no circumstances be made to feel that they are being used as part of any political campaign or an effort to achieve any political end.

And I'm very much aware that if I am confirmed, I would succeed a man I deeply respect and admire, a man who has been very kind to me for 25 years,

And I'm very much aware that, if I am confirmed, I would succeed a man that I deeply respect and admire, a man who has been very kind to me for 25 years.

The court has developed a series of precedents on precedent. I do think that it is a jolt to the system when you overrule a precedent.

The court has explained that the liberty protected is not limited to freedom from physical restraint.

The court has . . . recognized that personal privacy is a component of the liberty protected by the due process clause, ... The court has explained that the liberty protected is not limited to freedom from physical restraint, and that it's protected not simply procedurally, but as a substantive matter as well.

The Framers were not the sort of people, having fought a revolution to get the right of self-government, to sit down and say, 'Let's take all the difficult issues before us and let's have the judges decide them.'

You've got people thinking the Fed is basically on hold again. We still have uncertainty in the Middle East and the uncertainty in the stock market. Both of those things lend to a steeper curve.

The cause I believe in passionately, the one to which I have dedicated my career, is the vindication of the rule of law.

Their official date to return is now June 5, but they will probably return a few weeks earlier to get the accumulated leave time that is due to them,

The exact scope of it, both the beginning and the end, are issues coming before the court, and I don't think I should go further.

the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent.

The case itself is still pending, I don't think it's appropriate for me to address that.

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.

Foreign law, you can find anything you want. If you don't find it in the decisions of France or Italy, it's in the decisions of Somalia or Japan or Indonesia or wherever.

Then they had tremendous popular support. This time it is clearer that the high prices are essentially out of the government's control.

It's one of those things I think is difficult to put yourself in that position and say, well, with any degree of confidence, if I were suffering and confronting the end of life, this is what I would want to do,

It reaffirmed the central holding in Roe v. Wade.

It's not just the point guard -- it's every player on the floor. It's people cutting, getting to the baseline.

It's an old story that the appointees - once they're on the court - they tend to go their own way. And it's not always the way that the Presidents who appointed them predicted would be the case.

that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans.

That is a precedent entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis like any other precedent of the court.

That loss has really been driving us. We have been working every day since that point to keep getting better as a team. That game still sticks out in our minds.

That is an area in which I think the court can redouble its efforts to try to come to some consistency in its approach.

That is an area, I think, the court can redouble its efforts to come to some consistency in its approach,

There was no issue about condoning the behavior,

It's a sad day for us, ... Our country has lost a remarkable public servant, and my family and I have lost a very dear friend.

It is settled as a precedent of the court,

This was 23 years ago. I was a staff lawyer in the Justice Department. It was the position of the Reagan administration.

We got a 3-week-old baby out here. They don't have no formula, no water and they want us to survive out here. Where's FEMA? Where's the mayor? We need some help out here.

those responsible endured the sort of publicity reserved for adults who make young girls cry.

We want to do everything in our power to make things easier for them, ... When you join law enforcement, you become part of a close family. You all take the same oath to do the same job, and you all pitch in to help each other.

We weren't really mad, because (Gladwin) was on fire. We were giving them some open looks and we knew we could play better defense, so we were confident that we could get the lead back.

We just love the game, and we love this whole park. We're going to miss it, but we're really looking forward to the new park. We'll be there, too.

It's because we want him or her to apply the law,

If ever a cause needed public support, this is it,

I appreciate and respect the constitutional role of the Senate in the appointment process, and I'm very grateful to the senators for accommodating me,

I am very much aware that if I am confirmed, I would succeed a man I deeply respect and admire, a man who has been very kind to me for 25 years,

I do think it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent, ... there are situations when that's a price that has to be paid.

I do think that it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent. Precedent plays an important role in promoting stability and evenhandedness,

I do think the right to privacy (used by the Supreme Court to declare a constitutional right to have an abortion) is protected under the Constitution in various ways.

I don't think using opinion-writing assignments as a way to try to promote a particular view or agenda is a good idea,

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

For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the history of others. Both were written down in the books called the Old Testament, [the Torah] the sacred writings of the Jewish people ... They were the first to arrive at an abstract notion of God and to forbid his representation by images. No other people has produced a greater historical impact from such comparatively insignificant origins and resources ...

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

An administrator can define the rules without the need to do any programming.

The distinction of his service in the House is certainly subject to debate, and his actions leading to his murder can be viewed as those of a publicity hound.