John Roberts quote: "I do think the chief justice has a particular obligation to try to achieve consensus consistent with everyone's individual oath to uphold the Constitution, and that would certainly be a priority for me."

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my firs...
JOHN ROBERTS

I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work t...
JOHN ROBERTS

The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not o...
JOHN ROBERTS

It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don't really care whether you'...
JOHN ROBERTS

A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is g...
JOHN ROBERTS

Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire an...
JOHN ROBERTS

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room...
JOHN ROBERTS

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
JOHN ROBERTS

And you see those stories repeatedly, everywhere across this city. That the sense of desperation amo...
JOHN ROBERTS

President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to ...
JOHN ROBERTS

[The previous Supreme Court nominees] took a very strict approach. I have taken what I think is a ve...
JOHN ROBERTS

I always got a lump in my throat whenever I walked up those marble steps to argue a case before the ...
JOHN ROBERTS

We can contend that we have already done what the statute envisions, ... The president has demanded ...
JOHN ROBERTS

inexplicable and deeply disappointing.
JOHN ROBERTS

to the broadest extent that the Supreme Court has ... authorized.
JOHN ROBERTS

It's sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have ...
JOHN ROBERTS

Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped...
JOHN ROBERTS

[Roberts replied that any judge would first turn to Roe's reaffirmation in Casey.] It's a settled pr...
JOHN ROBERTS

They apply and decide cases according to the judicial process, not on the basis of promises made ear...
JOHN ROBERTS

you can find anything you want - if you don't find it in the decisions of France or Italy, it's in t...
JOHN ROBERTS

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for so...
JOHN ROBERTS

[Although he said he himself was] surprised ... If I am confirmed, that is something I would address...
JOHN ROBERTS

The court has . . . recognized that personal privacy is a component of the liberty protected by the ...
JOHN ROBERTS

[It was the same story when Roberts was asked whether he believed in a person's right to privacy, a ...
JOHN ROBERTS

has adopted this siege mentality in which the best way to deflect the question is to attack the ques...
JOHN ROBERTS

I have reviewed the testimony and have no objection to it. Although for the sake of any members of t...
JOHN ROBERTS

He did what a judge should do, not give any indication on any specific case or how he might look at ...
JOHN ROBERTS

I've been to a lot of these hurricanes including Hugo in 1989 and Andrew in 1992, which were both co...
JOHN ROBERTS

Given the fact that I'm a political newcomer, I don't have any hidden agenda. I've got a lot to lear...
JOHN ROBERTS

I'm free to chase anything that moves, and a lot of things that don't move. The opportunities are bo...
JOHN ROBERTS

The old formula was you raised $5 million in funding, you go into stealth mode. You think of a produ...
JOHN ROBERTS

I do think that it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent. Precedent plays an i...
JOHN ROBERTS

that's a misuse of precedent, not a correct use of precedent.
JOHN ROBERTS

delivered what may have been the shortest opening statement by a modern Supreme Court nominee - less...
JOHN ROBERTS

It was my job to articulate the administration policy,
JOHN ROBERTS

Well, Senator, I can't answer that question in the abstract,
JOHN ROBERTS

I was not formulating policy. I was articulating and defending the [Reagan] administration's positio...
JOHN ROBERTS

I think if you've looked at what I've done since I took the judicial oath, that should convince you ...
JOHN ROBERTS

Excess greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere make some climate change inevitable. Adapting to t...
JOHN ROBERTS

He's a man of integrity and fairness and throughout his life he's inspired the respect and loyalty o...
JOHN ROBERTS

No, I don't think there is. Sometimes it's hard to give meaning to a constitutional term in a partic...
JOHN ROBERTS

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

someone who can't be trusted to take Planned Parenthood's position on abortion.
JOHN ROBERTS

This body and legislative bodies in the states are protectors of the people's rights, ... Legislator...
JOHN ROBERTS

We are all shocked at this incident and our thoughts are with those who have been injured.
JOHN ROBERTS

You see she has a very tight grasp,
JOHN ROBERTS

I do think it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent, ... there are situations ...
JOHN ROBERTS

I think that civil liberties types will make an argument that the lure of chat lines may be too much...
JOHN ROBERTS

This is a case in which our supposed litigation program to encourage judicial restraint did not get ...
JOHN ROBERTS

[Hill on Tuesday said NARAL's advertisements attacking Roberts have been inaccurate and] discredited...
JOHN ROBERTS

Over 35 percent of our customers run Microsoft Windows Server.
JOHN ROBERTS

[Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said he had] an int...
JOHN ROBERTS

Premise ID will not cure any disease. It will help in being able to track potential victims of a dis...
JOHN ROBERTS

We continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled. .... The court's conclu...
JOHN ROBERTS

the brightest of the bright.
JOHN ROBERTS

That is an area in which I think the court can redouble its efforts to try to come to some consisten...
JOHN ROBERTS

I feel I should stay away from discussing specific cases that may come before the court,
JOHN ROBERTS

He did what a judge should do â€” not give any indication on any specific case or how he might ...
JOHN ROBERTS

It reaffirmed the central holding in Roe v. Wade.
JOHN ROBERTS

I think it is a jolt to the legal system when you overturn precedent. ... It is not enough that you ...
JOHN ROBERTS

It's an old story that the appointees - once they're on the court - they tend to go their own way. A...
JOHN ROBERTS

The case itself is still pending, I don't think it's appropriate for me to address that.
JOHN ROBERTS

Senator, that's a question that I don't think can be answered in the abstract. You need to know the ...
JOHN ROBERTS

Well, senator, as a legal matter, it is abstract,
JOHN ROBERTS

Of course gender discrimination is a serious problem. It's a particular concern of mine and always h...
JOHN ROBERTS

I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Execu...
JOHN ROBERTS

It is to me, obvious in the memo that I wrote to Fred Fielding that it was about whether or not it's...
JOHN ROBERTS

When I worked in the Department of Justice, in the office of the solicitor general, it was my job to...
JOHN ROBERTS

I think it's important to adhere to that ... if these questions come before me, either on the court ...
JOHN ROBERTS

While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is...
JOHN ROBERTS

This was absolutely necessary to keep Fontana tax dollars in Fontana and to provide uniform cost-eff...
JOHN ROBERTS

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
EMMA ROBERTS

I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most ama...
EMMA ROBERTS

I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.
TANYA ROBERTS

What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether ...
TANYA ROBERTS

Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.
TANYA ROBERTS

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
TANYA ROBERTS

I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
ORAL ROBERTS

Well, I can't figure out God.
ORAL ROBERTS

God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
ORAL ROBERTS

Everybody has a story... and a scream.
RACHEL ROBERTS

It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the ...
RACHEL ROBERTS

Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
RACHEL ROBERTS

When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you ...
JULIA ROBERTS

The fat needs to be at the smoking point. You run the biggest risk for burning with clarified butter...
AL ROBERTS

The thicker the bottom of the pan, the better the heat retention. A thin pan won't sear because the ...
AL ROBERTS

They didn't do anything we hadn't seen. We are philosophically sound, but we're not physically ready...
AL ROBERTS

They didn't do anything we hadn't seen, ... We are philosophically sound, but we're not physically r...
AL ROBERTS

But I have a lot of energy, I have a lot of want-to, I have a lot of passion. And I know at the end ...
AL ROBERTS

What he modeled was decency. He'd always ask me questions. 'How are you doing? What were my goals? D...
AL ROBERTS

I told the kids afterward we were playing hard all day, but we weren't playing smart. We had too man...
AL ROBERTS

It was a real honor to have our leagues recognized in the stadium.
AL ROBERTS

We need to go through this; this is all part of growing up.
AL ROBERTS

He was like an older brother to me,
AL ROBERTS

I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to g...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good ...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just ca...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I&...
DALLAS ROBERTS

To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it&...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
DALLAS ROBERTS

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or w...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just...
DALLAS ROBERTS

When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don'...
DALLAS ROBERTS

Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if...
DALLAS ROBERTS

It's funny, my kids and I live together, and I have a lot of actor friends. So my kids think eve...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the...
DALLAS ROBERTS

In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
DALLAS ROBERTS

The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a ...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put ...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of hi...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and fold...
DALLAS ROBERTS

When you get a job on 'The Walking Dead' you imagine you're going to be running through ...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, ...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I was 12 years old, so auditioning for a TV show was something I didn't even think really happen...
SHAWN ROBERTS

It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'...
ROBIN ROBERTS

If I'm having a really bad day, I always have a girlfriend - or even a guy friend - who I can ca...
EMMA ROBERTS

I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look ...
JULIA ROBERTS

Both sides thought that the status quo was not good enough.
ADAM ROBERTS

Any student can make a difference.
ADAM ROBERTS

The young guys, they're excited because it's new to them, ... If you have a bunch of guys that are o...
ADAM ROBERTS

Two regular people have worked to make something miraculous happen.
ADAM ROBERTS

It is a way for our congregation to get connected with Iraq. This definitely gives folks a hands-on ...
ADAM ROBERTS

International courts are not a preferred option, but limited to cases where national justice is not ...
ADAM ROBERTS

I hate Miami. When I first got here, I didn't know about them, coming from New York. It's a hate gam...
ADAM ROBERTS

The offense got clicking in the second half, and we didn't hold up our end of the bargain.
ADAM ROBERTS

a horribly dangerous precedent, a wrong-headed conservation policy propelled by the circus and zoo, ...
ADAM ROBERTS

My father told me if you're a leader the first thing you want to do is lead by example, ... That's w...
ADAM ROBERTS

I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experi...
DAVID ROBERTS

It's nice to sort of walk in and at least create the illusion that you are, or your character is...
LUKE ROBERTS

Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel thing...
NORA ROBERTS

I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.”
He closed the distance between them.
“Yo...
NORA ROBERTS

If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, ...
MONTY ROBERTS

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and t...
NORA ROBERTS

And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleepin...
NORA ROBERTS

When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom...
JANE ROBERTS

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.
B.H. ROBERTS

Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the...
JANE ROBERTS

They expect a professional presentation, so they expect to see a professional. Dress appropriately f...
WESS ROBERTS

I wouldn't do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes of...
JULIA ROBERTS

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understan...
STEPHEN ROBERTS

What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read th...
JULIA ROBERTS

As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long wi...
RICHARD ROBERTS

A soul is not something that you have. It is what you are. I usually use the term
JANE ROBERTS

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there i...
DONNA ROBERTS

What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read t...
JULIA ROBERTS

Don't waste too much time trying' to be a better man, ' cause you ain't never gonna be one without a...
MARK ROBERTS

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our natio...
PAT ROBERTS

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
COKIE ROBERTS

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gi...
JANE ROBERTS

Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, sli...
DALLAS ROBERTS

I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.
JULIA ROBERTS

Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist orga...
PAT ROBERTS

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my g...
JULIA ROBERTS

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.
ERIC ROBERTS

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that'...
JULIA ROBERTS

I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.
JULIA ROBERTS

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay...
JULIA ROBERTS

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
JULIA ROBERTS

Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best w...
JULIA ROBERTS

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth ...
JULIA ROBERTS

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.
JULIA ROBERTS

My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cook...
JULIA ROBERTS

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kind...
JULIA ROBERTS

Show me a mall, and I'm happy.
JULIA ROBERTS

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers co...
JULIA ROBERTS

My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.
JULIA ROBERTS

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation fo...
JULIA ROBERTS

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of ...
JULIA ROBERTS

I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've re...
JULIA ROBERTS

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
JULIA ROBERTS

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
JULIA ROBERTS

Conflict is good in a negotiation process... it's the clash of two ideas, which then, all being ...
LUKE ROBERTS

You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry,...
EMMA ROBERTS

The snake will always bite back.
JAKE ROBERTS

We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Ou...
BRIAN ROBERTS

Every now and again I just really have to have that steak or lamb chop. But yeah, B.C. - before canc...
ROBIN ROBERTS

Firstly, though we have to clean this blood up off the tiles before it dries. It is far easier to cl...
PATTI ROBERTS

Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you ...
JULIA ROBERTS

I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I gue...
EMMA ROBERTS

Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you kno...
COKIE ROBERTS

It's not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.
DAVID ROBERTS

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.
EMMA ROBERTS

If you have a degree in business and speak Spanish, it's going to open a lot of doors. It's really a...
ANDREW ROBERTS

We speak the ebonics of Spanish,
ANDREW ROBERTS

This is a fascinating reform, since it comes right before the U.S. FASB -- as is probable -- accepts...
ANDREW ROBERTS

When the country awakes, you'll see how strong the emotions are. It will be a national feeling of ho...
ANDREW ROBERTS

She genuinely was saintly. She hadn't got a vicious bone in her body. And if we had privacy law here...
ANDREW ROBERTS

Under the second scenario, the effect on asset prices would be more protracted and would eventually ...
ANDREW ROBERTS

We took more resources into the plan than we probably needed to. As we go forward, we'll probably pu...
ANDREW ROBERTS

On the eve of the strike, we saw very, very poor performance.
ANDREW ROBERTS

The hiring of permanent replacement workers is under discussion.
ANDREW ROBERTS

I think Andrew got a bit tired cause it was his first tournament for about six months, so it was a v...
ANDREW ROBERTS

William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS

It's good that he is trying to do something.
ANGELA ROBERTS

He's the one suffering, scared to go outside. When he suffers, I suffer, and I don't feel it's right...
ANGELA ROBERTS

I just couldn't believe it was my child. You hear about it happening around the world, but you don't...
ANGELA ROBERTS

I do think the chief justice has a particular obligation to try to achieve consensus consistent with everyone's individual oath to uphold the Constitution, and that would certainly be a priority for me.

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I do think the chief justice has a particular obligation to try to achieve consensus consistent with everyone's individual oath to uphold the Constitution, and that would certainly be a priority for me.

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