I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it! -Sam Ervin

 

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!


-Sam Ervin
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This quote is just one of 8 total Sam Ervin quotes in our collection. Sam Ervin is known for saying 'I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!' as well as some of the following quotes.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

Sam Ervin

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

Sam Ervin

I'm not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege; it is poppycock.

Sam Ervin

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

Sam Ervin

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

Sam Ervin