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"You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."
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"All authority belongs to the people."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
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"It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'."
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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."
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"I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge."
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"I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money."
Money
"Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics."
Politics
"You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it."
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"So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship."
Life
"So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married."
Family
"I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have."
Education
"I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness."
Life
"The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care."
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"And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington."
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