Robert Bork Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.”

“Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.”

“An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.”

“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.”

“I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing.”