7 Quotes & Sayings By Robert Bork

Robert H. Bork is a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, having been appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. He previously served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, from 1972 to 1987. Bork's opinions have earned praise from conservatives and liberals alike, but he is best known for his role in the controversial 1986 Supreme Court nomination of Associate Justice William Rehnquist, who was ultimately appointed Chief Justice Read more

Bork is an attorney by training, with a long record of service in government, academia, and the legal profession. He has held numerous posts in government and academia prior to taking his current position on the bench.

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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. Robert Bork
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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. Robert Bork
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The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. Robert Bork
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When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions. Robert Bork
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It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel. Robert Bork
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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. Robert Bork