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"There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed."
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
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"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."
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"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere."
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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."
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"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."
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"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."
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"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier."
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"I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less."
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"Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants."
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"There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed."
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"I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control."
Thought
"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
Committee
"Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public."
Public
"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."
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"It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty."
American
"Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment."
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"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."
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