John Jay Hooker Quotes
Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.
Hooker, John Jay. John Jay Hooker's Blog, 2005.
Technically the correct title is Chief Justice of the United States. He was one of the longest-serving Chief Justices and in his tenure the court did change from a liberal court to a conservative one.
This was an insult to the George W. Bush administration which had stretched the Constitution more so than any previous administration, had asserted Presidential powers that had never been asserted before and had had several of its more controversial policies and practices overturned by the Supreme Court.
However laudable his advocay for America, he did not make a very good diplomat. He didn’t last long at the United Nations but then he never believed that the UN was a worthwhile organization and used his time there, not to try and improve it or us it to American advantage but to attack it and praise America. Most listeners ended up with a lesser view of America but Bolton supports were pleased that he had stood up for America.
John Jay Hooker, Jr. was an American attorney, entrepreneur, political gadfly and perennial candidate from Nashville, Tennessee, who was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.
