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"Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has."
"The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases."
"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."
"We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone."
"I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence."
"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."
"I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial."
"If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall."
"A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena."
Explore more quotes by Fred F. Fielding
"The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly."
"The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned."
"This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI."
"It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved."
"It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years."
"Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training."
"It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved."
"One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities."
"Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged."
"But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created."
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