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

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

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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

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"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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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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"Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants."

Government

"There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed."

Country

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

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

Public

"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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"It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty."

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"Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment."

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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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