Political Quotes

“I rise this evening to talk about our system of justice. If we were to walk out from the Senate, out the front door, and across the front of the Capitol directly, we would find ourselves across the street from the U.S. Supreme Court. As everyone knows, inscribed across the front of the U.S. Supreme Court are these words: ``Equal justice under law''--a pretty simple statement about our system of justice, but of course that has a profound meaning in our system. Hundreds of years ago, Saint Augustine said the following about justice: Without justice what are kingdoms but great bands of robbers. So we have always had this focus on what justice means. It came into sharper focus, of course, when our Nation was born. We set up three branches of government--or, I should say, our Founders set up three branches of government--one of them being the judiciary and, of course, that was followed, after the Constitution was ratified, by the Judiciary Act of 1789. We have had that system of justice in one form other another all these years. In so many ways, our system of justice sets us apart from the world. Our system of justice, though it is often strained and stretched and sometimes undermined, is still the envy of the world. It does set us apart.…”