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"Judges are appointed often through the political process."
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"Judges are appointed often through the political process."
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"We're all the harshest judges of ourselves."
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"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."
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"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."
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"There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise."
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"All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table."
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"We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field."
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"Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times."
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"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."
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"You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer."
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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."
People
"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."
Thought
"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."
Community
"It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent."
People
"People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost."
People
"To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty."
Justice
"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."
People
"Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts."
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"It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty."
American
"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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