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"Judges are appointed often through the political process."
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"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."
"As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there."
"We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field."
"All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table."
"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."
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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."
"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 will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts."
"I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it."
"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."
"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."
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