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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

"President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it."

"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."

"This is America, where everything is still possible."

"Not to be blasphemous, but I wonder if even the Holy Trinity understands the American tax code."

"I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect."
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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."


"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."


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


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