Nina Totenberg quotes
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“Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.”
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“I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.”
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“[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.”
-- Nina TotenbergSource : "Inside Washington", PBS, July 8, 1995.
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“[On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world.”
-- Nina TotenbergSource : "NPR Journalists: Pundits or Reporters? Time to Choose" by Jeffrey A. Dvorkin, www.npr.org. October 29, 2003.
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“I didnt know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.”
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“Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.”
-- Nina TotenbergSource : "Trump's Criticism Of Judges Out Of Line With Past Presidents". Interview with Nina Totenberg, kucb.org. February 11, 2017.
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“Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our system of laws depends on lowly citizens and presidents abiding by court rulings.”
-- Nina TotenbergSource : "Trump's Criticism Of Judges Out Of Line With Past Presidents". Interview with Nina Totenberg, kucb.org. February 11, 2017.
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“If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.”
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“I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.”
-- Nina TotenbergSource : "Justice Scalia's Funeral Mass To Bring Together Unlikely Peers". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.
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“Throughout our history, the Supreme Court has entered national crises, often preventing presidents from doing what they want to do. Indeed, sometimes the court's verdicts are not vindicated by history. And yet presidents have complied with those rulings.”
-- Nina TotenbergSource : "Trump's Criticism Of Judges Out Of Line With Past Presidents". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. February 11, 2017.
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“What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.”
-- Nina TotenbergSource : "Justice Scalia's Funeral Mass To Bring Together Unlikely Peers". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.
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