Top 490 Court Quotes

Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don’t believe me – take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.
Bill O’Reilly
I just want to get on the court.
Carmelo Anthony
When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don’t come easy.
Dominique Moceanu
Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won’t even get their day in court.
Willem Dafoe
There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
Harold Pinter
Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.
James Woolsey
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi
If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unco

If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.
Adam Cohen
We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.
Jay Alan Sekulow
I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.
LeBron James
In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.
Jeff Sessions
I’ve been lucky enough to always recognize to leave stuff on the court, on the court.
Al Horford
I left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, ‘Judy, what the hell are you thinking?’ It seems like only yesterday.
Judy Sheindlin
The Constitution entrusts the Senate with the duty to provide to the President the ‘advice and consent’ for a lifetime appointment on the United States Supreme Court. It is a serious responsibility.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.
Richard Cobden
While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6 is crucial. If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed – and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president.
Bill Kristol
Installing an activist liberal majority on the Supreme Court will put religious liberties at risk for generations to come.
Mercedes Schlapp
As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal.
Corrine Brown
There’s no Democratic and Republican seats or gyms or coffee shops at the Supreme Court. Every American should be able to celebrate the fact that we aspire to nine justices who are looking to defend our rights and to defend the Constitution, not to advance policy preferences.
Ben Sasse
All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.
Gary Bauer
I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don’t like.
Rafael Nadal
So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.
Eric Alterman
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.
Ludwig Quidde
I love reflexology – it’s amazing. As a person whose career is on my feet, it relaxes me and keeps me healthy and helps me do those long hours on the court.
Marcus Smart
I think everything I do in my life I try to have fun, and I try to be creative on the tennis court, outside the tennis court.
Gael Monfils
The logic is often far-fetched – how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? – and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.
Michael Kinsley
A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.
Tom C. Clark
The most contentious Supreme Court battles are when a Republican nominates someone to replace a liberal justice.
Mollie Hemingway
Brown v. Board of Education was arguably the most important decision of the Supreme Court in the 20th century.
Letitia James
When I’m on the court I’m just trying to impact the game.
Jordan Clarkson
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.
Alan Dershowitz
When I step on that basketball court, I’m thinking about basketball, I’m thinking about winning – but there’s so much that goes into thought about how I’m going to open this game up to others. It’s so much more than just basketball.
Carmelo Anthony
In the past, there were groups which felt that the High Court didn’t represent them.
Ayelet Shaked
Going from a situation where you’re the best player on the court every time to the fourth-best player in your position, it humbled me.
Jermaine O’Neal
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.
John J. Sirica
‘Fairness’ can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court – whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law’s constitutionality.
Gary Bauer
I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.
Julius Erving
If diversity is what is a central value in every select

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
I’ve become more mature on and off the court, and I’ve learned how to deal with some of those big occasions much better.
Ashleigh Barty
There is no doubt that Republican control of the Senate is the only way to preserve the Constitutional integrity of our Supreme Court, realign our military’s force structure, and ensure the basic freedoms and liberties that make ours the greatest country in the world.
Todd Wilcox
What’s important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision – the past cannot be recovered anyway.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
It’s a facet of the gay rights movement that people don’t think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s ‘head and master rule,’ that the husband was head and master of the house.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Supreme Court has increasingly come down on the side of big corporations instead of workers and middle-class families.
Bob Casey, Jr.
Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.
Stockwell Day
Nick Kyrgios, physically, is a monster. When he is on the court and he runs, he flies. And he has got a massive arm.
Mats Wilander
I’d rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.
Annie Lennox
Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court.
Helen Wills Moody
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released – to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
Laurence Housman
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
O. Henry
Just because you’re convicted in a court room doesn’t mean you’re guilty of something.
Charles Manson
The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the Supreme Court already has based two rulings on it.
Alan Alda
I’m as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.
Roger Federer
The U.S. Supreme Court has eviscerated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, giving the police license to sweep communities, to conduct ‘stop and frisk’ operations.
Michelle Alexander
Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
Nancy Grace
The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.
Sandra Day O’Connor
CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
Floyd Abrams
He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications.
Rod Parsley
Don’t judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that’s about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It’s me against the world – that’s how I feel.
Lil Wayne