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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
William Howard Taft

Goes, Forever, Court

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
Rand Paul

Majority, Court, Declares

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
Rand Paul

Couple, Court, Declare

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
Benjamin Banneker

Gratitude, Sense, Universe

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.
Alan Dershowitz

Government, Mean, Security

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
Mario Batali

Food, Spring, Season

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.
Dan Savage

Friends, Sometimes, Advice

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

Justice, Liberal, Wants

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
Larry Flynt

Place, Individual, Community

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.
James Cash Penney

Belief, Anchored

The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it.
Tony Kushner

Marriage, Possible, Level

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.
Karen Armstrong

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.
Clyde Tombaugh

Nature, Power, Yourself

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
Tacitus

Power, Hate, Next

I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean.
Carol Alt

Long, Find, Put

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
John Howard

Life, Truth, Political

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
Jock Sturges

Work, Art, Country

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
Jimmy Wales

Done, Matter, Face

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.
Stockwell Day

Marriage, Human, Anyone

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.
Stockwell Day

Life, Today, Political

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.
Eric Alterman

Political, Decision, Negative

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
Jack Kevorkian

Death, United, Court

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
Jack Kevorkian

Used, Authority, Court

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
John Major

Between, Happens, Conflict

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.
David Frum

America, Wonderful, Court

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.
Benjamin Franklin Fairless

May, Different, Law

At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice.
Conrad Black

Justice, Human, American

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.
Robert Vaughn

Believing, Virtue, Mysteries

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
William O. Douglas

Religious, Whose

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

Power, Democracy, Body

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