Gary Bauer Quotes

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

I'm not the kind of judge where you get away with everything, because I know my basics. But I'm the judge where, if you emotionally capture me, then you've got me, I'm in your team.

God is no respecter of persons or causes.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

The Judge should be quick of perception; firm of purpose, clear in judgment, lenient in the infliction of penalties; assiduous in the practice of mercy; expeditious in the vindication of the innocent: clement in his treatment of criminals; careful of the rights of the stranger; gentle toward his countrymen. He should be no respecter of (important) persons, and should avoid all appearance of partiality.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

A judge is supposed to have empathy for no one but simply to follow the law.

Judges should follow the law in deciding cases - not their own values, good or bad.

A judge is supposed to be able to make a decision, and when you make a decision, very often one party - and very often both - are a little disappointed.

I would make sure that the values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values.

I think you go into a debate trying to be fair minded and trying to be balanced but occasionally there will be a sense where it feels like the moral imperative is pulling you one direction or another.

I know some people believe impartiality is key, and it's necessary in some situations, but in others - if something is so fundamentally wrong, why do we have to make out we're impartial?

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.