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The 'highest' states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Isn't it funny that anything the Supreme Court says is right?

Robert Frost

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allan Poe

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Leonardo da Vinci

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Joe Paterno

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Bertrand Russell

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert A. Heinlein

We are very encouraged by the Supreme Court's ruling.

Todung Mulya Lubis

No one made any motion for this. I guess the Supreme Court decided they wanted to hear this case because of its public interest. I think this is a good thing.

Jim Carpenter

The Palestinian Authority is facing a supreme test of its credibility.

Amos Gilad

I have one 96-year-old patient who hasn't seen a doctor in two years because of this. I don't think he'll make it until the Supreme Court hears this. I've had other patients who have passed away for the same reason. I feel terrible, but there's nothing I can do.

George Hsu

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court, ... But we can control the money.

Henry Bonilla

When Chief Justice (John) Roberts was interviewed before being sworn into the Supreme Court, he said every time he goes to court, he feels this tingling and that he understands the awesomeness of his responsibilities. I feel much the same way as I prepare to become a circuit court judge.

Roger Le Grand

The central hope I have for this case in terms of separation of powers is that the Supreme Court will restore the constitutional directive that no one branch of government has the power to accuse, appoint the prosecutor, designate the judges, and render judgment.

Judith Resnik

Most of these people are pretty good friends with each other and I don't think this is going to change. The Supreme Court of the United States will continue to be the lone institution of government that remains above the political fray.

Laura Ingraham

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Giacomo Leopardi

The beach is supposed to be open. That's why we're looking into it. It seems as though they may be in contradiction of the Supreme Court order.

R. Hamisi Ingram

We feel like the judge's ruling is too restrictive and it will apply not only to us, but apply to Cobb County School board members now and forever, and the only way we can do anything about it is to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Curt Johnston

We slavishly followed what the Supreme Court said we needed to do.

Jeff Ashton

That is Ronald Reagan's hand on the Supreme Court every day.

Stephen Wermiel

We did not submit an ordinance that we believed would not pass constitutional muster. The Supreme Court says we can make reasonable time, place and manner restrictions in order to achieve a legitimate public interest.

Steve Irwin

I do not support gay marriage, but I hope the Massachusetts state legislature will act in a manner that is consistent with today's Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling.

Dick Gephardt

The court and studies say we have an achievement gap. What got us to this point is a Supreme Court decision that says there's a problem with the formula.

Diane Gjerstad

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

We would like finality. We believe that we be will successful at the Supreme Court, once it gets there. We would like him to be released or charged. We think we have the unusual set of circumstances and facts in which the Supreme Court should carefully consider hearing our petition before the appeals court.

Donna Newman

Well in excess of the four-to-one ratio the U.S. Supreme Court has suggested approaches the constitutional limit of such awards.

Philip Morris

The failure of woman to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it n.

Anna Garlin Spencer

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

This is really a moral victory for the banking industry, because we believe the credit unions were breaking the law and the Supreme Court affirmed that.

Janet Eissenstat

It's not the mischief in this case that would cause the (Supreme) Court to be worried. It's the next case or the case after that where there isn't a clerical mistake but there's an effort to deceive or change the result.

Alan Morrison

We know there are 26 other states looking at resolutions or legislation like Prop. 209. Certainly this is a case that the Supreme Court ought to have the final word on.

Mark Rosenbaum

By the majority resolution, we will be disenfranchising every voter who went to the polls in the state of Florida. This does nothing but jeopardize the process... and (we) declare ourselves the paramount authority just as the United States Supreme Court considers these very same issues.

Dan Gelber

A ruling against the industry by the California Supreme Court, coupled with continued individual (verdicts) in the $100 million range, would present a challenge for the industry.

Bill Pecoriello

We have appealed with the Supreme Court on the same grounds: we are asking for the sentence to be overturned as [it is] illegal and unsubstantiated.

Genrikh Padva

It's been all Katrina all the time, and now it's Rita, too. Except for the Supreme Court, hurricane recovery is what Congress will be up to, so we have no choice but to adapt.

J. Steven Hart

The Supreme Court of Israel shall give the full appropriate weight to the norms of international law as developed and interpreted by the ICJ in its advisory opinion.

Aharon Barak

George W. Bush sided against people with disabilities in an important Supreme Court case. Now that he's running for president, he's changing his tune.

Douglas Hattaway

Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, ... We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.

Charles Adams

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Arnold Toynbee

Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

Bertrand Russell

What you find is that the U.S. Supreme Court very seldom if ever marches very far from the conventional thinking of contemporary society. They pay attention and are infected by mainstream thinking of what's moral and what's right and what's just.

Bruce Fein

It is certainly appropriate and within their rights to appeal, ... But we think there legal argument is without merit and would be rejected by the justices on grounds this is properly a case before the Florida Supreme Court because the issues are issues of state law.

Ron Klein

Senate leaders warned President George W. Bush on Wednesday that his next nominee to the Supreme Court will likely face a far more contentious confirmation battle than John Roberts, who is poised to become U.S. chief justice.

Steve Holland

This is a democracy not an anarchy. We have a system in the country to change rules. When you are on the Supreme Court, you can make that decision.

Robert Stutman

I said, 'I don't know. I'll go to the library and look it up.' If I would have known I'd end up at the Supreme Court, I probably would have said no.

Sarah Weddington

[And what does this tell us about the woman whom President Bush has nominated for the Supreme Court?] I don't mean to sound flip, but I'm a very handicapped person, ... I am not able to read people's hearts and souls and brains . . . the way he can.

Pat Schroeder

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est- this is the supreme practical maxim, this the turning point of the world's History.

Ludwig Feuerbach

I don't know if the Supreme Court is going to want to be the first court to get into this dispute. It seems controversial and political.

Neil Siegel

The Supreme Court ruling is legitimizing. This is really a peace of mind law and not something that is used often.

Robert Kenneth

I think Microsoft will get a stay on at least some of Jackson's conduct remedies, but I don't think it will get a stay on all of them, ... If the company does get a stay on all of them, that is a positive signal for Microsoft on how the Appeals Court or the Supreme Court would rule on the merits of its appeal.

Richard Gray

I am just elated that this part is over, and I feel the U.S. Supreme Court did justice in recognizing the feelings and the needs of people who have terminal illness, to be able to use that process in a compassionate and dignified manner.

Charlene Andrews

That means we need only a quarter of the Democratic members, ... Eleven states have changed their eminent domain laws since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. Why not Connecticut? Why do we need more than three months to study this issue?

Robert A. Ward

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Arnold Bennett

The smart money is that the Supreme Court granted this case to reverse.

Seth Waxman

We want to be fair and perform due diligence on nominees. We are trying to figure out not just how he might rule on an issue but what his approach is. There are so many split decisions on the Supreme Court because they take difficult cases. You want someone who doesn't rule by gut reaction but will decide based on a commitment to core constitutional principles.

Jon Davidson

The Supreme Court ultimately will rule on COPA, and we look forward to the day when we can receive the high court's opinion on our legislative effort to protect children from hard-core pornography.

James Greenwood

The pace he was keeping up in the spring was pretty intense. It's probably not realistic to expect that level of attention to be paid forever, when you've got Supreme Court justices and lots of other things on the plate.

Jeffrey Brown

Until now, there's been a lot of skepticism whether these shrink-wrapped licenses are enforceable, ... UCITA says this is a contract, so all arguments that have existed in the past go out the window. The only hope you have is that the Supreme Court will rule that it's pre-empted.

Jonathan Band

Today's ruling does nothing that affects the validity or infringement of the patents in suit. By admitting to the infringement in their Supreme Court petition, eBay abandoned any pretense of innocence.

Scott Robertson

I do not think this will affect the outlook of foreign investors in the Philippines, because the Supreme Court has also ruled on the same issue already. But police authorities have to move fast and solve this case.

Gabriel Claudio

Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

Rick Santorum

All are very strong judges. The one who's probably best prepared for the role of state Supreme Court justice is Vance Raye. The others are highly regarded. Morrison England is a relatively recent appointment to a court. For him, a little more time on the bench would be useful.

John Eastman

This is really a tremendous ruling on the part the Supreme Court upholding the rights of terminally ill patients to control their end of life care.

Robert Kenneth

She was a paralegal and advocate supreme. She truly cared about getting people the heath care they needed.

Judith Stein

I'm disappointed I was not able to persuade the court to seize the opportunity to become the first state Supreme Court to require expert testimony in order to prove that a still image transmitted by computer is of a real person rather than a virtual person.

Richard Emanuel

I hope the Supreme Court renders this moot, ... I hope the Florida Senate does not, but I would hope that the Supreme Court would.

Tom Feeney

I assume she is not sincere because if you're smart enough to be on the Supreme Court, you should be smarter than the president.

Ben Austin

He has supported overturning Roe vs. Wade in the form of aconstitutional amendment to protect the unborn child. He hasarticulated a policy that is strongly pro-life. And he has said hewould appoint strict constructionists to the Supreme Court.

Douglas Johnson

That's not acceptable because we were suing under the new securities law and now the court rejects the suit with a rather older explanation given by the supreme court.

Tu Yong

From there, we will go directly to the United States Supreme Court.

Jared Leland

We moved the president's agenda and have a Supreme Court nominee whom people are happy with.

Mike Dewine

I don't anticipate a big drawn-out, hard-fought proceeding. You make the presentation to the Supreme Court, and they rule on it.

Jeremy Levinson

When the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals delivered the craziest ruling in American history by striking down the Pledge of Allegiance three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in and stopped the insanity. The lower courts striking down the pledge again is like a dog returning to its vomit.

Randy Thomasson

It is a matter of enormous pride to see two of our colleagues become Supreme Court justices. The Reagan administration was very deliberate in trying to promote bright, ambitious young conservatives. And this is in many respects the fulfillment of that effort.

Charles J. Cooper

The fact that the president is now seeding the Supreme Court with people who have been handmaidens in his efforts to increase the power of the executive without any check or oversight whatsoever is very disturbing.

Bill Goodman

Eminent domain has been used historically very judiciously and mostly appropriately in North Carolina and other states. Our opposition is strictly based on our concern about the potential change in direction with eminent domain that the Supreme Court had opened that threatens private ownership of property.

Ken Chalk

We believe our employees in that unit were aware of that Supreme Court decision.

Russ Marlan

When you create radicals, they don't stop when you want them to. The leader can order when they leave the barracks, but they decide when to go back. This is the dangerous position of the supreme leader and the right wing right now.

Saeed Laylaz

Should be used a shield for sensitive evidence, not a sword the government can use at will to cut off argument in a case before the evidence can be presented. We are urging the Supreme Court, which has not directly addressed this issue in 50 years, to rein in the government's misuse of this privilege.

Ann Beeson

We're asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our appeal and argument.

John Hagerty

The way to fight is just simply send a registered letter or an e-mail (to GM). If your vehicle is not reasonably durable and has a mechanical defect, any judge on any bench -- small claims up to the Supreme Court of Canada -- can make that company pay.

Phil Edmonston

I think this team is as good as Dick Cheney's shooting skills. This is a recycled Bush-Cheney political team that represents the policies that the vast majority of Californians are opposed to, whether it's Supreme Court nominees, whether it's the environment, whether it's education. I think it's foolish of Schwarzenegger to have brought in Bush-Cheney's campaign team.

Bob Mulholland

He's incredible and he's Hispanic, ... and I think the Democrats saw that and thought, 'The reason he's being nominated for a lower court is he's the next Supreme Court nominee, so let's block him now.' .

Jay Jorgensen

I had the distinct impression he didn't think it was a good idea. There was a real risk of the proposal reducing the intended role of the Supreme Court as the final voice.

Douglas W. Kmiec

The supreme goal must be to finally boost long-term profitability at the company.

Susan Levermann

[He also pointed out the Supreme Court's statement that the appellate court would proceed expeditiously is] extremely unusual. ... file some papers requesting a faster Court of Appeals schedule than the White House requested.

Charles Bakaly

I was pleased that the Supreme Court did not rule our schools were inadequately funded. Adequacy is a highly subjective assessment. The best way to judge an adequate education is to let the parents decide--give them the right to choose their child's school.

Don Mcleroy

It is important to open up the dialogue and debate this issue given the pronouncement by the Supreme Court justices coupled with his (Lee's) desire to ensure that the death penalty remains a policy in Florida.

Kathy Mears

Recreational marijuana use is a fact of life nowadays. It doesn't stop Supreme Court justices from getting on the bench and doesn't stop presidents from getting elected, so why should it stop someone from getting hired by the FBI?

Mark Zaid

I would encourage those who are affected by this to go to the Supreme Court and question this absolute prohibition, in effect, of 'no permit-no rally' because this goes beyond reasonable restraint for common good.

Franklin Drilon

Under Texas statute, nothing is going to happen to impair the operation of public schools while the appeal is pending. We're confident the Supreme Court won't allow any injunction to go into effect while they're still finalizing their opinion.

Ben Taylor

The men of learning have determined '7 types of conduct' and man sins even if one of them is breached. He, who builds the castle of his life based on these 'seven pillars', attains to that 'supreme-place'(heaven) where all the 'paths'(religion) converge ultimately and exists for eternity.

Atharva Veda

He felt responsible for the internment in a sort of backhanded way, because his case had been lost in the Supreme Court.

Peter Irons

We have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court and we hope that when we appeal, the Supreme Court will temporarily stay the sentence until the appeal is heard.

Benazir Bhutto

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

Georges Jacques Danton

This is the third time we're up before the Supreme Court. You cannot say we're not tenacious.

Robert Jacobs

We're definitely approaching the Texas model. We just had an execution a month ago. And I'll be back at San Quentin on Monday night [January 16], unless the Supreme Court intervenes, to protest the execution of Clarence Ray Allen. And then Michael Morales will be either next month or March.

Barbara Becnel

What the (U.S.) Supreme Court and the nation have noticed is that when you are trying to single out and protect people who have been targets of bullying and violence it's necessary to enumerate categories.

Rebecca Steele

The races for the N.C. Supreme Court and N.C. Court of Appeals are the only statewide contests on the ballot this year, so it's key that voters across North Carolina have the facts on these candidates. The State Judicial Voter Guide does just that.

Chris Heagarty

What is your sexes earliest, latest cure, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.

Lord Lyttelton

We think it is very significant. We celebrate the fact that a state has put forth legislation that has no exception. We believe when it gets to the Supreme Court... the court could use (the law) to declare personhood for the unborn baby in the womb.

Jim Sedlak

There is no indictment of the Union Council of Ministers by the Supreme Court in the verdict.

Abhishek Singhvi

They are willing to test the boundaries of present U.S. Supreme Court doctrine.

A. E. Dick Howard

Only the Ohio Supreme Court, of any court, has the real authority to answer the question.

Jonathan Entin

And apart from all the urgent loss the President's legacy is on the line as well. Not only in how he's perceived as handling Katrina but also on that major task, filling those two Supreme Court vacancies. David.

Kelly O'donnell

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

We wanted to back the president, and sought evidence to support this nomination, but we find this Supreme Court nominee unqualified and her record troubling. However, we look forward to a nomination that we can wholeheartedly endorse.

Beverly Lahaye

Judge Jackson's ruling contains no legal analysis. I thought the judge would explain why his order was consistent with precedent. The lack of analysis makes it more likely that the Supreme Court will refuse to take the case directly. Jackson issued the ruling too fast.

Robert Lande

The U.S. Supreme Court doesn't require her to be there. It is her decision, and we have not discussed it yet. Obviously there is a great deal of money involved in this case, but the principle is more important than the money. Ms. Nicole Smith believes that her husband intended to support her for the rest of her life, and his son is trying to stop him from achieving that.

Kent Richland

The supreme court stirred up trouble with its recent decision supporting a government ordinance cracking down hard on the press, and it is now time for the Nepalese judicial system to put itself at the forefront of the struggle to ensure respect for the constitution and civil liberties.

Reporters Without Borders

If it's upheld by the Supreme Court, it will increase our ability to serve our customers worldwide to secure e-commerce and international information.

Charles Williams

This is going to be the most important, most controversial Supreme Court confirmation battle since Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.

Ralph Neas

[If the Florida Supreme Court had merely interpreted state election laws instead of making them, Florida's post-election process may not have descended into] controversy, dispute and chaos, ... carefully enacted plan by Florida Legislature.

Theodore Olson

The California Supreme Court has reviewed and denied no less than seven state habeas corpus petitions, two in the last week.

Hallye Jordan

The crisis began with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, which offered voting statistics and automatically proclaimed the Liberal candidate.

Ricardo Maduro

That ruling doesn't simply hit innocent men now in their fifth year of imprisonment. It goes to whether we have a judicial branch at all. This is that rare question so vital that the Supreme Court should immediately intervene to answer.

Sabin Willett

I really can't guess how the Supreme Court would rule.

Jean Naples

In confirming recent nominees like [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg, [Stephen G.] Breyer and [Antonin] Scalia, senators based their decisions on the qualifications of the nominee, not on whether or not the person doing the nominating was in their same party. The public does not want to see the Supreme Court become an extension of partisan politics.

Dana Perino

Unless you are willing to change that Supreme Court and make it a pro-life constitutionalist court, your position is fraudulent and it is hollow and it is shallow.

Pat Buchanan

Perhaps the 2005 filibuster wars depleted interest group war chests in advance of the recent nomination battles. Whatever the reason, the air wars in the federal confirmation process were tame compared with recent advertising in state Supreme Court elections, where interest groups spent more than $7 million in 2004.

Bert Brandenburg

The Supreme Court has said Congress does have the power to create new legal interests -- to confer standing on people who otherwise wouldn't have it.

Mark Tushnet

We're trying to stand up not only for First Amendment rights that have been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court but for regular people who want to challenge incumbent politicians and require reasonable resources to do that. This law makes it very difficult to unseat an incumbent--if you hit your limit you can't even drive yourself to a campaign event.

Jim Barnett

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Duke Ellington

Today is a shameful day in the history of American jurisprudence, ... Today the U.S. Supreme Court has said in its ruling essentially that it is OK .

Barbara Becnel

We have a Supreme Court justice who said, 'You all have been doing this for 23 years, when are you going to get it right ?' I think that is disingenuous.

Mike Beebe

Today, I came to know from media reports that the PMO (Prime Minister's Office) has formed a committee under a retired judge of a high court or the Supreme Court to find out the number of Muslim officers in the three wings of the armed forces.

Rajnath Singh

They're all solid candidates. They're very much in the traditional mold for California Supreme Court justices. They worked in a DA's office or the attorney general's office and then they climbed the judicial ladder. They've come up through the ranks and they don't bring much career diversity to the court.

Stephen Barnett

In the entire country, there is no better Supreme Court advocate than Miguel Estrada.

Jay Jorgensen

As recently as 2003 . . . the Supreme Court of the United States said it is not unconstitutional to apply community standards.

Daniel Weiss

The Supreme Court's decision should not be construed as an endorsement of assisted suicide, but a state's rights issue.

Teresa Favuzzi

Absent intervention by the Florida Supreme Court, this would appear to be a terrible blow to the class of sick smokers in Florida.

Mark Gottlieb

A supreme social challenge.

Cleveland Amory

Nobody can feel better than the man who is completely taken in. To be intelligent may be a boon, but to be completely trusting, gulible to the point of idiocy, to surrender without reservation, is one of the supreme joys of life.

Henry Miller

The fact that she's a successful lawyer doesn't mean she's going to do a good job as a Supreme Court justice. To use a baseball analogy, just because somebody is a good shortstop doesn't mean you put him in as a pitcher.

Alan Morrison

I had given several courses on Jewish Supreme Court justices. We understand there had been some Jews who weren't that nice, and it's desirable to talk about the bad with the good.

Norman Olsen

With supreme irony, the war to "make the world safe for democracy" ended by leaving democracy more unsafe in the world than at any time since the collapse of the revolutions of 1848.

James Harvey Robinson

We won this election for the President, and we deserve to have the next Supreme Court nominee, we deserve to be heard, we deserve to have our policies implemented.

Christine Todd Whitman

It is certainly appropriate and within their rights to appeal. But we think there legal argument is without merit and would be rejected by the justices on grounds this is properly a case before the Florida Supreme Court because the issues are issues of state law.

Ron Klain

All they have done is strengthen my resolve, ... I'm going to build a house on that property, and the Georgia Supreme Court will have to say we can't.

Glenn Richardson

One Supreme Court justice went to law school after he was appointed to bone up on the law.

Allan Wolf

Our position that U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over non-U.S. citizens being held in military control abroad is based on long-standing Supreme Court precedent.

Mark Corallo

Let all people live in harmony… Men should be taught and won over by reason, not by blows, insults, and corporal punishments. I therefore most earnestly admonish the adherents of the true religion not to injure or insult the Galilaeans in any way… Those who are in the wrong in matters of supreme importance are objects of pity rather than of hate….

Julian The Apostate

The Supreme Court will determine if Copperleaf's special use permit is a final decision and whether they have waived their right to a contested case hearing.

Hans Johnson

If invocations are done, they have to be, according to (a 1983) Supreme Court decision, such that they do not advance any particular faith or belief. The reason being, you try and make as many people included as possible so that nobody feels that they're being left out of any particular prayer.

Andrew Rosenkranz

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

J. Frank Dobie

The Supreme Court of the nation has noticed that when you're trying to protect people who have been targets of bullying and violence, it is necessary to enumerate categories. The reason is so people are given notice, concretely, of what behavior they can and cannot do.

Becky Steele

They can't file a new impeachment complaint in July because they still have a pending appeal in the Supreme Court.

Romulo Macalintal

With the heat of the 2004 election behind people, and the drama surrounding the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision, it sort of faded from the public's attention. A lot of people don't feel particularly strongly about this issue.

Michael Dimock

We have a lot of guys on this defense who play with a passion, so adding another one is great. The more the merrier. He's got such a positive approach. He not only tells us we're going to win, he tells the other team we're going to win. He loves to run his mouth. I do a little of that myself, but he does it even more. He plays with a supreme confidence.

Patrick Kerney

The concern is that (the Supreme Court ruling) could be applied elsewhere.

Shawn Murphy

It's a victory for the government in a narrow sense because their strategy was to keep the Supreme Court out.

Joseph Onek

The indictments completely ignore the First Amendment that, according to the United States Supreme Court, gives individuals and their businesses the absolute right to inform the public of the conduct of our elected officials and the conduct of candidates for public office, including their public statements and their voting record.

Roy Minton

In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court decision, there were questions about the procedures that prosecutors could use to have courts impose these (longer) sentences. State legislation clarified the process, but there was a question about whether it was retroactive. That is resolved by these decisions.

Kevin Neely

Both sides have always said that the California Supreme Court is where the final decision will be made.

Dana Cody

I'm hopeful through the debate on this nominee, and the next Supreme Court nomination, we can avoid the destructive partisanship that approached the brink of absolutism in ideology.

Pat Robertson

He didn't do much arguing of the case, but probably did a lot of the research. And then, for the Supreme Court, he even had his train ticket, but was told not to go. It must have been crushing.

Judith Kilpatrick

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Herman Wouk

The vote is a shot across the bow in terms of the Justice Department and how it conducts itself, in terms of upcoming Supreme Court nominations, and the push-and-pull within the Bush administration. Will it be bipartisan or will it be pulled to the right?

Charles E. Schumer

This is another in a continuing legal backlash against the Boy Scouts for asserting and winning its constitutional rights in the United States Supreme Court.

Bob Bork

It's a very pointed message in a very public forum to someone about to assume the most important seat on the court, ... Whether he heeds it or not, Roberts can't be indifferent that the Senate is upset about the Supreme Court usurping the functions of Congress, second guessing them, and belittling their reasoning.

Ross Baker

So I've made the decision as a United States senator to try to find some legal assistance and I'm going to take this to court. It is now time for the Supreme Court, if this continues and we don't break this filibuster, to give us their view of what is going on here.

Lindsay Graham

It is rather unlikely that memos signed by the deputy solicitor general will be crassly or even overtly political. What is said will be said, almost certainly, in terms of supposed 'professional' judgments about what would persuade the Supreme Court.

Jefferson Powell

Stripping jurisdiction from the court after they have decided is far-reaching and, I think, premature. Congress can override the Supreme Court, but in this case I don't consider it the right thing to do.

Lee Casey

Abortion will definitely be on the front burner of the Supreme Court for the first time in many years.

Tom Goldstein

We're going to the Supreme Court, ... We are hoping to have something ready to go to the court tomorrow.

Ted Costa

They wanted a symbol. They wanted someone who openly supported their views of the Supreme Court. But they know nothing about her judicial philosophy.

Gloria Borger

This is much fairer for taxpayers. I think everyone was upset by that Supreme Court ruling.

Larry Montague

What's in front of the Supreme Court right now is whether injunctions in general are compulsory or discretionary in patent infringement cases where guilt has been established and litigated.

Michael Caputo

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

John Calvin

Though the Supreme Court had declined to admit my petition, it had stated, 'it is not the considered opinion against any particular community,' thus though the remarks were not expunged, they have been overruled by a Higher Court.

Sonia Raj Sood

This is the definitive day, and if Al Gore cannot persuade the Florida Supreme Court so that both the certification and the Florida Legislature (are) on the same side of this ledger, then this battle is over.

Robert Torricelli

They have not agreed to provide written assurances they will comply with Immigration and Naturalization Service instructions if they do not prevail in the appeals court and cannot obtain a stay from the Supreme Court.

Carole Florman

It's a way to get this issue to the Supreme Court for a final decision to be made.

Jared Leland

They are not often reversed. I think that's partly because the 4th Circuit is relatively conservative as the Supreme Court is coming to be.

A. E. Dick Howard

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

William McFee

The state agrees with Storms that his sentence may be impacted by the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in State v. Foster. The state has no objection to having Storms returned to the trial court for re-sentencing.

Patrick Lang

Tennessee cannot pick and choose who among its residents is allowed to speak freely. We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will recognize that only allowing an anti-choice plate violates free speech rights and that the appeals court will prevent production of the plate while the case is under review.

Julie Sternberg

The Supreme Court has not directly faced the issue of whether 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance violates the First Amendment.

Carl W. Tobias

Unless the Supreme Court now reverses the extreme position that five justices took in 2000, partly born premature infants will continue to die by having their skulls punctured by seven-inch scissors.

Douglas Johnson

It's been a long time since anyone has gone to the court with this much experience as a Supreme Court advocate.

Richard Lazarus

ALLAH, n. The Mahometan Supreme Being, as distinguished from the Christian, Jewish, and so forth. Allah's good laws I faithfully have kept, And ever for the sins of man have wept; And sometimes kneeling in the temple I Have reverently crossed my hands and slept. Junker Barlow.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Carolyn Maloney

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Here in the West, our word is our bond and a promise and a handshake mean something. This is President Bush's second nomination to replace a Western justice with one from the East Coast. I think we need more Western common sense and ethics on the Supreme Court, not less.

Jon Tester

The chief justice of the Supreme Court properly discharged the court's responsibility to supervise the judiciary. And from the standpoint of my client, Judge Maloney, we're very happy to have this behind us.

Robin Gibson

I think it's a little naive to think that the state Supreme Court isn't going to at least see this as a message from the Legislature.

Sen. Brad Benson

It could take two or three years longer on the appellate level for the first tier -- that's the circuit court of appeals -- then it could take a couple of years ... in the Supreme Court.

Marvin Miller

On this anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that forced abortion upon all 50 states, ALL is launching an aggressive nationwide campaign to stop every dollar of Planned Parenthood taxpayer funding at the local, state and national levels.

David Bereit

The resignation of Justice O'Connor creates a devastating and dangerous moment for reproductive health care and women's rights. With so much at stake, Planned Parenthood will be on the front lines of the Supreme Court battles to ensure women's health is protected.

Karen Pearl

It's adequate to describe proposals generally, which is something that came from the Idaho Supreme Court's decision. But most districts include a catchall that gives some legal flexibility.

Nicholas Miller

We drew his attention to the matter that the implementation of Supreme Court's order is an infringement of our fundamental right to live peacefully.

Praveen Khandelwal

After days of White House winks implying that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would be a reliable conservative vote because she is a devout Christian evangelical, President George W. Bush himself yesterday suggested that he picked her in part because of her faith.

John Riley

The makeup of the Supreme Court is changing. The Ohio abortion ban provides the necessary constitutional challenge to Roe that could result in sending the abortion issue back to the states.

Mark Harrington

We urge the government, the president, Parliament and Supreme Court to solve our problem...in five days.

Gastao Salsinha

We're very pleased with the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law, allowing us to continue creating the jobs and spurring economic development important to the people all across the state.

Saleem Cheeks

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Cleveland Amory

If you've got 13 felonies, and negotiations are, you have to plead to at least one, which one do you plead to? ... The one the Supreme Court can't even agree is a crime.

Stephen Meyer