Quotes About Supreme Court Nominations

#1. Supreme Court nominations are an occasion to pause and reflect on the values that make our nation strong, just and fair. And we must determine whether a nominee has a demonstrated commitment to those basic values.

Edward Kennedy

#2. Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic.

Albert Einstein

#3. The true value of networking doesn't come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others.

Simon Sinek

#4. I must have dreamed a thousand dreams about you these past two weeks.

Addison Moore

#5. A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

John Cornyn

#6. In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

Alvin Toffler

#7. To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

Steve Jobs

#8. With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

Daniel Johns

#9. Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

Patricia Ireland

#10. We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Patrick Leahy

#11. Only the good die young.

Billy Joel

#12. I think having a term for a condition that is prevalent is useful, because then people understand it as something not particular to them. It allows you not to ask the question, "What's wrong with me?" and begin to ask the question, "What's wrong with this place that I'm in?"

Claudia Rankine

#13. The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles

Joseph Brodsky

#14. 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