Gavel Quotes

Where's your gavel? Your jury? What's my offense this time? - Paramore

What will happen is, for every one person who sees it on C-SPAN gavel to gavel -- so that they can really understand what the court is about, what the whole process is -- 10,000 will see 15-second takeouts on the network news, which I guarantee you will be uncharacteristic of what the court does... So I have come to the conclusion that it will misinform the public, rather than inform the public, to have our proceedings televised. - Antonin Scalia

We've been in negotiations, as you know, right through the night and at 6:17 this morning, he brought down the gavel on a set of agreements that may well save the planet. - Elizabeth May

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda. - Dan Quayle

The imprint of his gavel has been deep... His impact has been profound. Now it is cemented forever in our history. He leaves behind a legacy as one of the most influential chief justices in our nation's history. - Bill Frist

That sort of development never pays for itself. There's plenty of vacant land and dilapidated buildings in town that they should be working on. - Steve Gavel

Supposedly we have rural areas in this county and we need to sustain them. - Steve Gavel

Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other. - Craig McDonald