Judge Quotes

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.