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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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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."

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"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."

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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

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"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."


"I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it."


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


"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."


"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."


"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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