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"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
"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
"Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts."
Fact
"To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty."
Justice
"It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty."
American
"At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over."
Politics
"And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?"
Business
"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."
Community
"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."
Independence
"Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants."
Government
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"Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment."
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