304 Quotes by John Roberts

I have been fortunate for the past two years to serve on a court in which all of the judges ... put aside those (political) ties and those views and become judges all focused on the same mission of vindicating the rule of law. And if you look at the decisions of the D.C. Circuit, you'll see that we're almost always unanimous. We almost always come out the same way and to the extent there are disagreements, they don't shape up along political lines,

They apply and decide cases according to the judicial process, not on the basis of promises made earlier to get elected or promises made earlier to get confirmed,

Their official date to return is now June 5, but they will probably return a few weeks earlier to get the accumulated leave time that is due to them,

The right to privacy is protected under the Constitution in various ways,

I have an understanding of people of the first ward. I want to be a voice for those people.

The right that was protected in the assisted-suicide case was the right of the people through their legislatures to articulate their own views on the policies that should apply in those cases of terminating life, and not to have the court interfering in those policy decisions, ... That's an important right.

a judge's judicial work is not influenced...by his sense, sharp or vague, of where justice lies in respect to the great issues of his time.

I feel the need to stay away from a discussion of particular cases.

I've not seen anything that would cause me to vote against