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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  1. Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean! - Bob Marley

  2. We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. - Paulo Coelho

  3. Don’t judge people for their success or what they have today, when you don’t know their past. - Steeven Shaw

  4. Don’t be late or I may end up marrying the judge. - Melinda Heald

  5. When we cannot see, we don't judge. Small wonder when we kiss, cry, laugh, make love, are in pain, pray and listen to music, we close our eyes. - Sabine Shah

More Quotes By Robert Bork
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

  4. 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.

  5. It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

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