Orrin Hatch Quotes

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

Judge [Samuel] Alito, I'll tell you the same thing I told John Roberts. I expect you to adhere to the Code of Judicial Conduct.

Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

How is it appropriate for a judge ever to say that they will choose to see some facts and not others?

Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.

No judicial nomination should answer any question that is designed to reveal how the nominee will rule on any issue that could come before the court.

We never know the issues others may be facing, and it isn't up to us to judge actions and behavior.

A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

We must remember that judicial nominees are constrained in what they may discuss and how they may discuss it.

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.

When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was before us in 1993, she said that her standard was to give no hints, no forecasts, no previews, and declined to answer dozens of questions.

Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.

No one should be judge in his own case.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers and legislators, rather than being judges.

It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends.

The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.

People judge you because of your weight and your food issues. It's very visual.

To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.