
Top 24 Miers's Quotes
#1. Given her lack of experience, does anyone doubt that Ms. Miers's only qualification to be a Supreme Court justice is her close connection to the president? Would the president have ever picked her if she had not been his lawyer, his close confidante, and his adviser?
Randy Barnett
#2. President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle.
Peter Baker
#3. I never know when chat-up lines are happening! I don't hear them enough. I don't get hit on enough.
Kelly Rowland
#4. I will not talk to God about how big my problems are. I will talk to my problems about how big my God is. This is my declaration.
Joel Osteen
#5. If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.
Charles Krauthammer
#6. While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials and information will continue.
Harriet Miers
#8. The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
Publilius Syrus
#9. Things weren't the same with us, not right away, and maybe not ever. We were growing up. We were still figuring out how to be in each other's lives without being everything to each other.
Jenny Han
#10. Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
#11. My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
Odilon Redon
#12. The bottom line is this: Miers is a disappointing pick.
Ben Shapiro
#13. I have been informed repeatedly that in lieu of records, I would be expected to testify about my service in the White House to demonstrate my experience and judicial philosophy,
Harriet Miers
#14. Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
Scott Westerfeld
#15. Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?
James A. McDougall
#16. I write to withdraw as a nominee to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States ... I am concerned that the confirmation process presents a burden for the White House and our staff that is not in the best interest of the country.
Harriet Miers
#17. Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.
Rhys Ifans
#18. Give a man a fish shop
and he'll flounder.
Teach a man to manage a fish shop,
and he'll learn to fill it!
Cameron Semmens
#19. Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
Ellen Goodman
#20. I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving the theatre than when it came in.
Leo McCarey
#21. Harriet Miers isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on The West Wing , let alone to be a real one.
Ann Coulter
#22. Thrifty, to think not only of eating the people you did not like, but eating them out of their own skull. The
Philip K. Dick
#23. I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
Carl Barks
#24. Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
John Ruskin
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