Quotes of the Morning: Judge Not

"I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. Certainly nothing new, but we seem to have run through a spate of courthouse violence recently that's been on the news and I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters on some occasions where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in - engage in violence.”
-Senator John Cornyn, April 4, 2005

“Yeah! If we want to stop violence in our courthouses we really need the judges to stop making legal decisions that contradict what the Republicans want to do! You know.. for the kids.”
-Skippy

"If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship."
-Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

“Senator Charles E. Grassley . . . who supports individual accounts and whose position makes him the most important senator on the issue, said he planned to put Social Security legislation before his committee in July but added, ‘The president may not succeed in as clear-cut a manner as I might have hoped.’"
-New York Times, April 3, 2005

"Despite the best that has been done by everyone . . . the war situation has developed not necessarily to our advantage."
-Emperor Hirohito, August 15, 1945

“Thanks to Billmon for the two previous quotes..”
-Skippy