Robert Zubrin Quotes

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Government is not a bottom line enterprise. You can get yourself elected ... but you can't fire the legislature if they won't do what you want.

No war, foreign or domestic, is a sufficient reason for shutting up the courts … The shutting up of the courts is an abdication, a total dissolution of government ….

We must be ever vigilant against those who would strong arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into a dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends be avoiding these beginnings.

The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society, depends so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislature and the executive, and independent upon both that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.

The Supreme Court has acted as the final barricade against the assaults of democratic majorities.

Both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev have law degrees but they do not know what the rule of law means.

The attorney general should be a watchdog for the rule of law, not a lapdog for the president - simple as that.

The Attorney General is not above the law.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of one man one vote. Any country or Government which wants to proceed towards tyranny starts to undermine legal rights and undermine the law.

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

We depend on the Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of our government.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.