"It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent."

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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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"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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"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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"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."

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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."

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"Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts."

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"To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty."

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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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"Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public."

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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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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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Jane Austen, British Writer

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