Political Quotes

“I will speak for a few moments this afternoon about the American judicial system, and I speak not really as a lawyer or as a Senator but as an American who has just had an opportunity to observe the Supreme Court of the United States in action. I did so this morning as a lawyer representing plaintiffs in a case involving the Philadelphia Navy Yard. I do not at this moment speak about the merits of the case, which I had an opportunity to do this morning before the Court, and have had an opportunity to do on this floor on prior occasions, but about our system of justice, about our Constitution and about our Federal courts. It is an inspirational experience to come into the Supreme Court building and to see the inscriptions about major court decisions, starting with Marbury versus Madison, a case decided in 1803 which upheld the principle of Supreme Court review on constitutional issues, and the declaration by Chief Justice Marshall that it is emphatically the province of the Federal courts to decide the law.”