Unelected Judiciary Quotes & Sayings

We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country. — Alberto Gonzales

I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate about it. The night before I had to show something to my client I had a dream, an interesting dream. I woke up and for once in my life I wrote it down and went back to sleep Next morning I went to the office and had that dream out into a TV commercial which is still running thirty years after and which has made that particular product the leader in its field. — David Ogilvy

I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had. — Kal Penn

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it. — Peter Kreeft

Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did? — L.M. Montgomery

As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action ... — Ann Scott

Earning an education is not the same as gaining a skill set. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples. — June Jordan

The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost. — Richard Paul Evans

Then we'll be lost together, and we'll figure it out together. Whatever that means. Whatever it takes. I'm with you, and I'll be with you for as long as you want me. — Alexis Hall

Allowing unelected judges to declare laws enacted by popularly elected legislatures unconstitutional and invalid seemed flagrantly inconsistent with free popular government. Such judicial usurpation, said Richard Dobbs Spaight, delegate to the Constitutional Convention from North Carolina, was "absurd" and "operated as an absolute negative on the proceedings of the Legislature, which no judiciary ought ever to possess." Instead of being governed by their representatives in the assembly, the people would be subject to the will of a few individuals in the court, "who united in their own persons the legislative and judiciary powers," making the courts more despotic than the Roman decemvirate or of any monarchy in Europe. — Gordon S. Wood

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man. — Howard Gossage

I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around. — Chelsea Peretti

There are moments when your heart breaks and melts at the same time. When there's so much love flooding your soul that you're drowning in the tide. This is that moment with Noah. — Katie McGarry

The debate over judicial nominations is a debate over the judiciary itself. It is a debate over how much power unelected judges should have in our system of government, how much control judges should have over a written constitution that belongs to the people. — Orrin Hatch

Wait, I almost shouted, but didn't, and that would be my burden to bear. — Katie Cotugno

- Who would carry the bell canto
- Of course Montserrat Caballe — Maria Callas

All magic is unnatural, and for that reason is to be feared and avoided ~ The Scarecrow — L. Frank Baum