Top 24 Quotes by Edwin Meese

About Edwin Meese

These are some quotes by American author Edwin Meese Public Servant, who was born on December 2, 1931.

A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.

A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.

Edwin Meese

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

Edwin Meese

Pastors can lead the way in motivating the faithful to wise stewardship of their citizenship responsibilities. Without a healthy culture and civil society, limited government and ordered liberty will be impossible.

Edwin Meese

As Alexander Hamilton said in 'The Federalist Papers,' law is about the exercise of judgment and not will. Judicial activism is best understood as substituting judicial opinion for the command of law. The law is not an infinitely malleable tool.

Edwin Meese

I've been in several situations where police officers and district attorneys have had the cooperation of people in the news media without either endangering the reporter or compromising their sources.

I've been in several situations where police officers and district attorneys have had the cooperation of people in the news media without either endangering the reporter or compromising their sources.

Edwin Meese

Democracy demands that judges confine themselves to a narrow sphere of influence - that is why the late Alexander Bickel called the judiciary the 'Least Dangerous Branch.' In a world governed by a proper conception of their role, judges don't play at being legislators - they leave that job to our elected representatives.

Edwin Meese

It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

Edwin Meese

In most countries, you have a monarch or some other principal person to whom its officers and its military swear their allegiance. Our officials in this country and our military swear allegiance to the Constitution. We say that when we say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

Edwin Meese

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

Edwin Meese

The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s.

Edwin Meese

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