Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nina Totenberg

He may be for conservatives what (Justice William) Brennan was for liberals.

Rebecca West

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

William J. Brennan

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Woodrow Wilson

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

William J. Clinton

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

William J. Clinton

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Vartan Gregorian

The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

Efraim Zuroff

His passing will hopefully remind people there are Nazi war criminals who can and should be prosecuted.

Warren Buffett

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

Kurt Loder

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

Bruce Springsteen

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Lars Leijonborg

It's a shame. The serious criminals will get another year's head start.

M. Wolfe

They enabled us to find war criminals and to have the evidence to punish them, and to de-Nazify and to find the Germans that we could trust.

Peter Rogers

It was the most stupid thing to investigate when there are real criminals who should occupy the time of high ranking officers.

David Shuster

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

Vince Williams

James Dean is a great artist, and I love him.

John Leonard

I think it's an excellent strategic fit, the pricing is fair, and if you look at other institutional-retail combinations like Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, the synergies are there,

Howard Fineman

If you told me in 2004 that Howard Dean would end up running the Democratic Party months after losing the nomination to John Kerry, I'd have said you were crazy. I think he took the job because he wants to understand the forces that defeated him.

Tom Harkin

As we Iowans say, Howard Dean has his head screwed on right.

Jim Davies

It's a way we get to pay homage to 'Blondie' and to Dean for their status,

John Edward

Unless I missed something, Governor Dean still has not said he was wrong. Were you wrong, Howard?

Robert Duvall

Dean was talented, obviously, ... But he died at a good time.

Kirk Walters

Dean Smith and all the great players that he had, there's just so much history and it'll be fun to play there.

Alfred Enoch

Sometimes people are like, 'Hey, you played Dean Thomas!' and I'm like, 'Wow, you actually know!' It kind of shocks me because when I think about movies I love, and if I saw someone who essentially did what I did in Harry Potter, I probably wouldn't recognize them walking down the street.