Judith Resnick Quotes

The civil process has become too expensive, time-consuming, and contentious, inhibiting effective access to the courts.

For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

For the common man the justice meted out in the lower courts is much more important than that meted out in the Supreme Court.

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

Why Lawsuits are Good for America

Whate'er is best administered is best," may truly be said of a juridical system, and the due distribution of justice depends more upon the rules by which suits are to be conducted, than on the perfection of the code by which rights are defined.

I have come to regard the courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

And let no one apply to the king in any suit, unless he at home may not be worthy of law, or cannot obtain law.

The laws you have already passed for the establishment of a judiciary system have opened the doors of justice to all descriptions of persons. You will consider in your wisdom whether improvements in that system may yet be made, and particularly whether a uniform process of execution on sentences issuing from the Federal courts be not desirable through all the States.

The law will argue anything, with anybody who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

At some point the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home.

Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?.

It gives a new meaning to the expression, "High Court.

I am running for Attorney General because I believe there is no higher calling than the pursuit of justice.

Without legal aid, and the dedicated lawyers who deliver it, our system of justice would quite simply collapse.

As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

God bless the Florida Supreme Court.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.