Wendy E. Long Quotes

I am not a pro-prosecution or pro-defense judge.

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

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

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

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.

Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

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

I will not vote for - and no senator should vote for - anyone who will not render justice impartially.

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

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

… without animus or partiality.

Get out of the way of Justice. She is blind.

Do not favor the poor or show deference to the rich; judge your neighbor fairly.

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

We do not sit like a kadi under a tree dispensing justice according to considerations of individual expediency

I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.'

A judge who likes every opinion he reaches is a bad judge.