Udo Di Fabio quotes

You shouldn't overestimate the power of a single judge.
-- Udo Di Fabio

#Judging #Overestimate

European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive.
-- Udo Di Fabio

#Affair #Executives #Reserved

Anyone who takes a seat in the Bundestag does so within a Europeanized constitutional framework.
-- Udo Di Fabio

#Doe #Framework #Seats

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.

After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

You shouldn't overestimate the power of a single judge.