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It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers. — James J. Kilpatrick

This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court. — Bill Maher

The Supreme Court could have said, You're just these fringe women in combat boots. But they didn't. — Ariel Levy

I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall. — Dahlia Lithwick

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers. — Howard Dean

I'll tell you how to solve this abortion thing ... Those unwanted babies ... ? Leave about 12 of them on the Supreme Court steps. — Bill Hicks

The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties. — Dick Durbin

New land formed by lava flows belongings to the state, not to abutting property owners. So ruled the Hawai'i Supreme Court in 1977. — Larue W. Piercy

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions. — Judy Biggert

I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan] — Dwight D. Eisenhower

If the court is a political institution making important political decisions, then the public should debate the politics of Supreme Court decisions. — Marvin Ammori

God bless the Florida Supreme Court. — Lou Dobbs

In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. — Al Franken

On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit. — Gary Bauer

The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians. — Timothy Noah

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well. — James Woolsey

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court. — Cecile Richards

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society. — Noam Chomsky

The American people should be the one to decide which direction the Supreme Court will go. — Jeff Sessions

If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones. — Timothy Noah

We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities. — Craig Venter

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face. — Conan O'Brien

You just never know what the Supreme Court is going to do. — John Barrasso

We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight. — Kermit Roosevelt III

I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test. — John McCain

States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision. — Bernie Sanders

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida. — Vincent Bugliosi

Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations. — Herb Kohl

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions. — Cornel West

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so. — Rand Paul

The last stop to protect rights and liberties is the Supreme Court. — Dick Durbin

Every time I lied to my dad I felt like I was going up against the Supreme Court justices and pleading my case. — Claire Contreras

I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids. — Peter Beinart

Having people that really reflect the spectrum of American experiences is important to have on the Supreme Court. — Cory Booker

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court. — Lawrence Lessig

The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy. — Rand Paul

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time. — William Safire

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can. — Larry Flynt

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. — Irving R. Kaufman

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. — Donna Leon

The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law. — Patrick Leahy

Supreme Court had said feds should stay out of abortion. — Mitt Romney

Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts. — Robert Reich

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy. — Lamar S. Smith

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.' — Alan Dershowitz

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws. — John Cornyn

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle. — Rand Paul

Ever feel like dialing 911 is just simply not enough, and you really need to speak to someone on the Supreme Court ... ? — Josh Stern

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases. — Harry A. Blackmun

I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility. — Frank Lautenberg

I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court. — Richard Land

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences? — Nat King Cole

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech. — Mitch McConnell

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. — Robert Jackson

I look forward to the time when the membership of the Supreme Court's more reflective of the country it serves. — Patrick Leahy

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns. — Finley Peter Dunne

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard. — James L. Buckley

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize. — Antonin Scalia

I'd like to think those laws will be overturned, but the Supreme Court is as useless as tits on a bull these days. — Rysa Walker

Whether D.C. residents will be full-fledged citizens seems to be a case worthy of the Supreme Court. — Walter Smith

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend. — Harry S. Truman

I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called. — Howard Dean

The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position. — Arlen Specter

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right. — Karen DeCrow

I don't know much about the Supreme Court. If it's anything like the Supreme Taco, it's like a regular court, but with extra sour cream. — Craig Ferguson

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court. — Christopher Buckley

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said. — Laurence Tribe

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad. — A.E. Samaan

Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue. — Carolyn Maloney

The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional. — Sam Ervin

Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American. — Arlen Specter

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land. — Bob Menendez

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties. — Frank Lautenberg

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view. — Sonia Sotomayor

The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion. — Mathew Staver

The Supreme Court justices are able to decide fewer than 1 percent of all the appeals — James Duane

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible. — Mike Rounds

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions. — Christine Pelosi

I don't think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court. — Dick Mountjoy

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day. — Fred F. Fielding

The Supreme Court has declared the police are not under obligation to save individual citizens from crime. — U.S. Concealed Carry Association

I was harder to pin down, but I knew him when I saw him. Like the Supreme Court and pornography, I was aware. — Alice Clayton

Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United! — Bernie Sanders

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court. — John Roberts

The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically. — Ari Fleischer

I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me. — Anthony Lewis

It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court. — Cecile Richards

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most. — Dan Abrams

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions — Art Rust Jr.

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero. — Felix Frankfurter

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court ... but we can control the money. — Henry Bonilla

I don't like to see facts twisted, untruths fabricated to give the [Supreme Court] nominee a black eye, even before he comes before Senate committee. — Chuck Grassley

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be. — Benjamin Franklin Fairless

One difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent. — Ron Brackin

Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech - and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court. — Marsha Blackburn

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people. — Barbra Streisand

We depend on the Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of our government. — Frank Lautenberg

Tom Jr. was steeped in Free Soil politics and was now chief justice of the Kansas State Supreme Court. — Robert L. O'Connell

...the Supreme Court made several liberal decisions in the 1970s, indicating the moral decline of the nation as a whole. — Kurt Grussendorf