| 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 |
| Samuel Alito | I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
Samuel Alito |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.
Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.
Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.
Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.
Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
Sandra Day O'Connor |
| sentenced | Film director Roman Polanski has lost his bid to be sentenced in a US court without having to return to the country. |
| sentenced | I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan
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| sentences | A Chinese court sentences a former Supreme Court judge to life in prison for taking bribes, state media report. |
| sentences | A Polish court sentences three men to jail terms for the theft of the Arbeit Macht Frei sign from Auschwitz last December. |
| sentences | A US court sentences computer expert Albert Gonzalez to 20 years in prison for stealing credit card numbers. |
| sequence | The question for us now to solve is the sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. |
| Serena Williams | Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
Serena Williams |
| shock | As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court. |
| Sibel Edmonds | And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.
Sibel Edmonds |
