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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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"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."
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"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed."
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"There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise."
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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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"We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field."
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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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"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 are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."
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"Judges are appointed often through the political process."
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"However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises."
Values

"Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times."
Judges

"It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house."
Legal

"There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society."
Society

"Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood."
Time

"It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing."
Business

"There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different."
Life

"A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment."
Effect

"We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field."
Judges

"We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians."
People
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