Nina Totenberg Inspirational Quotes (6)

If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

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.

[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.

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.

I didnt know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

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.