Court Opinion Quotes

#1. Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.

Warren Rudman

#2. The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

Mike Rounds

#3. Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.

Meldrim Thomson Jr.

#4. I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

Samuel Alito

#5. You and I won't lose each other, I will always find you again. No matter how well you hide. I'm unstoppable.

Stephenie Meyer

#6. If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.

Farrah Gray

#7. The court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as well. It's what I've called "the Washington cartel." It's career politicians in both parties. It is lobbyists and giant corporations.

Ted Cruz

#8. Whether interpreting the Constitution or filling in the blanks of a law or a regulation, every word of the court's opinion can widen or narrow our rights as Americans and either protect us or leave us more vulnerable to any winds that blow.

Herb Kohl

#9. The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

William James

#10. Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained under duress may not be admissible in the court of scientific opinion.

Stephen Stigler

#11. The only person you can trust with a good idea is a fool; he will not know what to do with it. The last person you trust with a good idea is a shrewd person; he will take advantage of it better than you would.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion.

Ted Cruz

#13. '2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.

Dinesh D'Souza

#14. No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.

William Wilberforce

#15. In my humble opinion," (Ghandi) told the court, "non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is co-operation with good.

Wade Davis

#16. Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.

Victor J. Stenger

#17. No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.

Joyce Carol Oates

#18. If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

James Q. Wilson

#19. The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court ... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.

William O. Douglas

#20. There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Charles Bradlaugh

#21. In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#22. There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion ...

Djemal Pasha

#23. The reader lives a thousand lives, while the non-reader only lives one.

Anonymous

#24. My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.

Larry Bird

#25. I'll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.

Ken Saro-Wiwa

#26. It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery.

Sarah Shahi

#27. Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.

Robert H. Jackson