Top 30 Orrin Hatch Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.”

— Orrin Hatch

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2. “There is a good reason they call these ceremonies ‘commencement exercises’. Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.”

— Orrin Hatch

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3. “Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.”

— Orrin Hatch

4. “I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup.”

— Orrin Hatch

5. “When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was before us in 1993, she said that her standard was to give no hints, no forecasts, no previews, and declined to answer dozens of questions.”

— Orrin Hatch

6. “Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.”

— Orrin Hatch

7. “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

8. “You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.”

— Orrin Hatch

9. “I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.”

— Orrin Hatch

10. “But I bear witness to Christ, too. I really know him to be the savior of the world. And that means more to me than almost anything else I know.”

— Orrin Hatch

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.”

— Orrin Hatch

17. “We’re going to find out who did this and we’re going after the bastards.”

— Orrin Hatch

18. “However, FDA attempted to reverse this clear congressional intent in March, 1979, by proposing to regulate vitamins and minerals as ‘Over-The-Counter’ drugs...”

— Orrin Hatch

19. “We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.”

— Orrin Hatch

20. “Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .”

— Orrin Hatch

21. “If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don’t agree on something, it makes you wonder.”

— Orrin Hatch

22. “We should evaluate judges and judicial nominees based on the general process for applying the law to any legal disputes, not on the specific result in a particular case or dispute.”

— Orrin Hatch

23. “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

24. “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

25. “We must apply a judicial, not a political, standard to this record. Asking a judicial nominee whose side you will be on in future cases is a political standard.”

— Orrin Hatch

26. “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

27. “This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job – of the judicial job description.”

— Orrin Hatch

28. “Because judges may not issue advisory opinions, judicial nominees may not do so either, especially on issues likely to come before the court. That rule has always been honored.”

— Orrin Hatch

29. “The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.”

— Orrin Hatch

30. “We must remember that judicial nominees are constrained in what they may discuss and how they may discuss it.”

— Orrin Hatch

31. “No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.”

— Orrin Hatch