Quotes by Orrin Hatch - Page 2

Although I will miss serving you in the Senate, I look forward to spending more time with family, especially my sweet wife Elaine, whose unwavering love and support made all of this possible.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Senate
Serving
Unwavering
Love Family Time
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A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political positions or cater to certain political interests.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Decision
Mean
Political
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I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won't help themselves, won't lift a finger, and expect the federal government to do everything.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Billions
Federal Government
Rough
Time Government People
Finger
Help People
Lift
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I don't want to be overly critical about our military or our intelligence people, because it's a tough job. But neither should think be beating their breasts and saying what a wonderful job they did.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Jobs
Military
Thinking
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I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Break
Give Me
Poor People
Resent
Rich
Chance Me People
Says
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Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial confirmation process are not litmus paper and a calculator.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Important
Political
Tools
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Children
Community
First Amendment
Obscene
Sacrifice
Standards
Altar
Amendment
Families
Material
Prohibited
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Mentioning God in the Pledge of Allegiance is no different in kind than allowing government salaried Chaplains for the military or for the Congress, or including the official motto, In God We Trust, on our currency.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Government
Military
Scary
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Constitutional Rights
Hands
Order
Policy
Public Policy
Rights
Constitutional
Public
Define
Judges
Make Up
Oppose
Shape
Strike
Undermine
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The place where you got to get revenues has to come from the middle class. That's where the huge number of people that are there. So the system does need to be revamped [to tax the rich less and the middle class more.]
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Class
Numbers
People
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We must use a judicial, rather than a political, standard to evaluate [a nominee's] fitness for the Supreme Court. That standard must be based on the fundamental principle that judges interpret and apply but do not make law.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Judging
Law
Political
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I happen to think CHIP has done a terrific job for for people who really needed the help. I have taken the position around here my whole Senate service. I believe in helping those who cannot help themselves but would if they could.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Senate
Terrific
Chip
Believe I Believe Done
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Unfortunately, the liberal philosophy has created millions of people that way who believe everything they are or ever hope to be depends upon the federal government rather than the opportunities that this great country grants them.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Federal Government
Grants
Unfortunately
Liberal
Millions Of People
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Ending up in the right place in this debate requires starting in the right place. The right place to start is the proper discrimination of what judges are supposed to do, and the rest of the process should reflect this judicial job description.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Jobs
Discrimination
Judging
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America's founders were clear that the Constitution established a federal government of few and defined powers. It cannot regulate any activity it chooses, but they only regulate in those areas which the Constitution grants it power to regulate.
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Constitution
Founders
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It's high time to address research into medical marijuana. Our country has experimented with a variety of state solutions without properly delving into the weeds on the effectiveness, safety, dosing, administration, and quality of medical marijuana.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Medical
Delving
Effectiveness
Safety
Solutions
Variety
Address
High Time
Properly
Weeds
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Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Decent
East
Fighting
Hero
Middle East
Pressure
Stability
Taken
Tyranny
Heroes
Societies
Prospect
Region
Terrorists
Throughout
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The debate over judicial nominations is a debate over the judiciary itself. It is a debate over how much power unelected judges should have in our system of government, how much control judges should have over a written constitution that belongs to the people.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Government
Judging
Should Have
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In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes. Judges must settle legal disputes, not pursue agendas. Judges must interpret and apply the law, not make the law.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Government
Judging
Law
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In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations..., by large law firms...on more than one occasion(, and) ...by special interests...(some) ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct.
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Dark
Law
Practice
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By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law is unworkable for the American people. I’m committed to working with my Republican colleagues on how Congress can respond to help those hurt by Obamacare’s broken promises.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Hurt
Law
Obamacare
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The Indians, they don't fully understand that a lot of the things that they currently take for granted on those lands, they won't be able to do if it's made clearly into a monument or a wilderness. Once you put a monument there, you do restrict a lot of things that could be done, and that includes use of the land... Just take my word for it.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Granted
Monument
Wilderness
Currently
Indians
Restrict
Take For Granted
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I'm not naive. Sometimes interpretation is more of an art than a science. There are those who would label interpretation absolutely anything a judge might do or, two, the text of a statute or the Constitution. But it seems to me there comes a point where a judge is using his own creativity and purpose and crosses the line between interpreting a text written by somebody else and in a sense creating something new.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Art
Creativity
Judging
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I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled by those who have controlled the old, narrower ones, .. This is especially true if they achieve that control by leveraging their dominance in content or conduit space in an anticompetitive way to control the new, independent music services that are attempting to enhance the consumer's experience of music.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Artist
Independent
Thinking
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I believe in the separation of powers. If a judge crosses the line between interpreting and making the law, he has crossed the line supporting his legitimate authority from the legislative branch's authority. Now, to me that's a very serious matter if we believe, as America's founders, did that the separation of powers - not just in theory or in textbook but in practice in the actual functioning of government - is the linchpin of limited government and liberty.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Believe
Judging
Liberty
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If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.
Orrin Hatch / United States Senator
Gun
Law
Should Have
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