Susan Collins Quotes

In evaluating any given claim of misconduct, we will be ill served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence and fairness, tempting though it may be. We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.

We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

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

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

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

Justice and good will outlast passion.

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

It is easier to lead men to combat and stir up their passions than to temper them and urge them to the patient labors of peace.

No man must be Judge who propounds unto himself any hope of profit, or glory, from the victory of either party.

May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

The poor man … will be swayed by his sense of injury against the men who try to hold what they have improperly won… the most awful passions will be let loose.

I have always tried to be clear that my states are stages of justice reasoning, not of emotions, aspirations, or action.

I don't hate Guardiola. These kind of feelings don't suit with professional matters.

I don't talk about referees. I never do, usually, and I want to carry on like that.

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

No man can be judge to his own cause.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

The stronger the facts are there, you should achieve justice. You don't need to make sensationalized statements.