"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."

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"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."

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"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."

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"We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field."

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"We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."

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"As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there."

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"There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise."

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"You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer."

Sol Wachtler, American Judge

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"Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times."

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"We're all the harshest judges of ourselves."

Susan Anton, American Actress

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"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed."

Floyd Abrams, American Lawyer

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"It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state."

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"The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline.""

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"You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that."

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"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."

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