“The court will be in an extremely unsettled and uncertain situation until Justice O'Connor's successor is confirmed and seated, ... No one -- including the justices themselves -- will know for sure whether the nine justices who hear a case will be the same nine who will decide it.”
David Garrow
“The court will be in an extremely unsettled and uncertain situation until Justice O'Connor's successor is confirmed and seated. No one — including the justices themselves — will know for sure whether the nine justices who hear a case will be the same nine who will decide it.”
“The court will be in an extremely unsettled and uncertain situation until Justice O'Connor's successor is confirmed and seated, ... No one — including the justices themselves — will know for sure whether the nine justices who hear a case will be the same nine who will decide it.”
“I think you're looking at a very unsettled situation now. What's going on in the Middle East is cause for great concern.”
Jeffrey Benton
“I believe the assessment that if we pull out it will leave an unsettled situation that is bad for the neighborhood and bad for us. Therefore I'd be willing to stay longer if I believed what we're doing would lead to progress in six to 12 months. But I have not seen that evidence, so I'm skeptical that it will. . . . So it may be what we're pursuing, if not effective, then there's no point to it.”
William J. Perry
“Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“Queen Victoria - this flabby, fat, flatulent looking scion and successor of the most ignoble line of Royal Georges - Her chief claim to the remembrance of posterity will be that she has the means of afflicting the English people with a most prolific”
John Norton
