I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.
Sonia Sotomayor

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.
Sonia Sotomayor

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
Sonia Sotomayor

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
Sonia Sotomayor

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.
Sonia Sotomayor

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
Will Durant

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Bertolt Brecht

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
Rahm Emanuel

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
Vernon Howard

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Demosthenes

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
Chief Joseph

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
Chief Joseph

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
Spike Lee

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
Dee Hock

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
Yasser Arafat

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
Dag Hammarskjold

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Honore de Balzac

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
Brigham Young

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes