Gary Bauer Quotes

A judge is supposed to have empathy for no one but simply to follow the law.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

It’s not what I as a judge believe is right. It is what I believe the normal man of reasonable ability and integrity believes is right.

Judges shall judge justly, according to the written law and not according to their own judgment.

Judges should follow the law in deciding cases - not their own values, good or bad.

Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law.

A judge is supposed to be able to make a decision, and when you make a decision, very often one party - and very often both - are a little disappointed.

I would make sure that the values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values.

I do not decide cases based on personal or policy preferences.

A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

I am not sure that I can determine what is fair or unfair to the public.

You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike.

Justice and fairness and history are not necessarily decisive in what happens.

Justice is determined by the personality of the judges.

Lady Justice doesn't have empathy for anyone. She rules strictly based upon the law, and that's really the only way that our system can function properly under the Constitution.

Throughout my decade on the bench, I have watched my colleagues strive day in and day out to do just as Socrates said we should - to hear courteously, answer wisely, consider soberly, and decide impartially.

As a former prosecutor, I will always be on the side of the law and not any particular constituency.

No matter who or what you support, I believe in supporting fairness first.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Justice is truth in action.

The law is reason, free from passion.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.