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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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"We're all the harshest judges of ourselves."
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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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"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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"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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"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."
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"All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table."
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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."
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"Judges are appointed often through the political process."
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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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"There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise."
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"Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants."
Government
"People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost."
People
"We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other."
Public
"You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts."
People
"I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it."
People
"You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment."
Office
"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
Committee
"We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."
Judges
"Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public."
Public
"Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him."
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