Quotes about proceedings (16 Quotes)


    Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

    A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways;
    She treads the path that she untreads again;
    Her more than haste is mated with delays,
    Like the proceedings of a drunken brain,
    Full of respects, yet nought at all respecting;
    In hand with all things, nought at all effecting.





    A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

    You are well aware that I come to these proceedings to be judged as a judge. ... It would be wrong for me to say or to preview in this legislative chamber how I would cast my vote on questions the Supreme Court may be called upon to decide. ... Judges in our ... system are bound to decide concrete cases, not abstract issues. ... A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints. ... It would display disdain for the entire judicial process.

    The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.

    He will regret the damage and the hurt that so many people suffered as a result of this tragedy. Mr. Causey signed a plea agreement, not a cooperation agreement. To the extent that he has any involvement in upcoming legal proceedings, he will do one thing -- he will tell the truth because that's who he is, that's what he should do and that's what he is going to do.

    From our perspective, what I think is important is the prosecution team, in conjunction with specialists from the criminal justice branch, are reviewing the decision and the proceedings. After that review, they will determine what action, if any, should be taken.

    The ability to locate emergency callers can save lives, and I urge the member states to lose no more time in making the necessary changes, so that these proceedings and all other pending cases can be closed.


    The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

    Furthermore, as a number of former solicitors general from both Republican and Democratic administrations have noted, releasing internal documents would significantly compromise the ability of the solicitor general's office to obtain advice necessary in defending the American people in legal proceedings.

    To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods.

    If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.



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