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I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
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1997 Senate confirmation hearing, reported in Deborah Tedford, ""Senate Will Have To Confirm Court Choice", NPR (26 May 2009)

 

Sonia Sotomayor

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George Henry Lewes

 

To bend down for money is OK, but to bow is not. Introduction to Money, Power, and Honor, In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower (1989).

 

Avner Strauss

 

I do not know anything about Charles Keating's work or his business or the matters you are dealing with. I only know he has been kind and generous to God's poor, and always ready to help whenever there was a need... Whenever someone asks me to speak to a judge, I always tell them to pray, to look into [their] heart, and to do what Jesus would do in that circumstance. And this is what I am asking of you, your Honor.

 

Agnes Gonxha (Mother Teresa) Bojaxhi

 

I do not know anything about Charles Keating's work or his business or the matters you are dealing with. I only know he has been kind and generous to God's poor, and always ready to help whenever there was a need... Whenever someone asks me to speak to a judge, I always tell them to pray, to look into [their] heart, and to do what Jesus would do in that circumstance. And this is what I am asking of you, your Honor.

 

Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhi)

 

Around the child bend all the three
Sweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.
Around the man bend other faces;
Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

 

Walter Savage Landor