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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. -- Andrew Jackson
Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers. -- Todd Tiahrt
Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress. -- Phyllis Schlafly
I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch. -- Bob Woodward
For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. -- Fred Thompson
And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings. -- Sibel Edmonds
A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices. -- Vincent Bugliosi
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing. -- Caroline Kennedy
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution. -- Charles Evans Hughes
I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised. -- Alfredo Stroessner
The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear. -- Rose Bird
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch. -- Thomas Jefferson
Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. -- Karl Rove
Judiciary is where my passion is. -- Patrick Leahy
So long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe. -- John Rutledge
Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents. -- Alberto Gonzales
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As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law. -- Norman Lamm
It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists. -- Conrad Black
The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared. -- Jo Bonner
The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that -- Fred Thompson
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Just look at the Judiciary Committee, You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the nomination to the floor, and now it all depends on what Democrats do. -- Barbara Boxer
[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper. -- James Madison
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body. -- Felix Frankfurter
I applaud the fact that the president has reached out to the members of Judiciary Committee. And I applaud. the fact that he has been meeting with members of the Judiciary Committee. He's been seeking out Republicans as well as Democrats. -- Edward Kennedy
This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted. -- Russ Feingold
Judge Roberts' civil rights record and views remained the most controversial and unexplained part of his record when the Judiciary Committee hearing concluded, just as his civil rights record and views had been the most controversial part of his record when the hearing began. -- Mel Watt
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
Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry. -- Stephen Kinzer
The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people. -- Felix Frankfurter
One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation. -- Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. -- Thomas Jefferson
A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that. -- Michael Newdow
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function. -- Arlen Specter
[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . . -- Alexander Hamilton
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A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government. -- Thomas Jefferson
The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government. -- Alexander Hamilton
Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved. -- Edi Rama
And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments. -- Alexander Hamilton
I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens. -- Osman Baydemir
. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments. -- Alexander Hamilton
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. -- James Madison
As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society. -- Sonia Sotomayor
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character. -- Ferdinand Mount
I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would. -- Roy Moore
There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain. -- P. Sathasivam
I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary. -- Alcee Hastings
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. -- Elliott Abrams
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs. -- Kamisese Mara
America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. -- Bill Johnson
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. -- Thomas Jefferson
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone. -- Thomas Jefferson
President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights. -- John Roberts
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. -- Alexander Hamilton
[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government. -- Alexander Bickel
The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary. -- Victor Ponta
I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary. -- Samuel Alito
And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee. -- Stephen Breyer
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary. -- Hans Frank
I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges. -- Ken Livingstone
The FBI with their heavy influence on the judiciary system has successfully blocked me on every turn. -- Leonard Peltier
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme. -- David Souter
The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world. -- Ted Olson
Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds. -- Jonathan Sacks
New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary. -- Samuel J. Tilden
If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself. -- Russell Kirk
The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above the Supreme Court. -- Patrick Leahy
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary and police. -- Walter Cronkite
An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold. -- Thomas Sowell
[Leftists] have all these embeds in their bureaucracy and in the judiciary. So even when they lose elections they have ample positions of power occupied by career invisibles. -- Rush Limbaugh
Obama had the media; Obama had the judiciary; Obama had all kinds of support. At an Obama press conference, typical question, "What enchants you?" I mean, Obama was never challenged seriously by the media. -- Rush Limbaugh
Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to. -- Joseph Sobran

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