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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.

We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline."

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

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

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.