What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really "empathy" and "understanding." He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
Karl Rove

When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.
Rush Limbaugh

When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.
Leah Ward Sears

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
Sandra Day O'Connor

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
Charles de Secondat

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.
Robert Jackson

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S. Truman

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William James

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.
Stephanie Herseth

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

Writing is the supreme solace.
W. Somerset Maugham

You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice.
Rod Parsley

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
John Calvin

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
Joe Paterno

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.
Jay Alan Sekulow

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
Marianne Moore