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

"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."

"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."

"Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families."

"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"

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"People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost."


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


"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."


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


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


"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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