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Stephen Breyer

"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 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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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."

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

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"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."

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"I realized that public affairs were also my affairs."

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"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."

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

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

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"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."

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