Irving R. Kaufman Quotes

People see the courthouse as the Publishers' Clearing House.

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

I believe in the jury system.

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

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

I have faith in the jury system.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

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

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

Courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law.

Let law enforcement determine guilt or innocence.

The wheels of justice sometimes turn slowly, but happily they turn.

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

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

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

I have faith in the judicial system.

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

The only relevant side is that of the law and the Constitution. We do great injury to the integrity of the court system when we start speaking of sides and stop devoting ourselves to the pursuit of impartial justice.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.