Brett Kavanaugh Quotes

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

Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law.

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

I am not a pro-plaintiff or pro-defendant judge.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

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 am not a pro-prosecution or pro-defense judge.

I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing based on our taste.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

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

You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike.

A judge who likes every opinion he reaches is a bad judge.

We have judges in the American system and they take on a black robe where they are supposed to shield their partisan preferences. They are not red or blue state judges. They are judges.

A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law.

I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it.

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

God is no respecter of persons or causes.

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

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.