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"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."

"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."

"We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."

"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."

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


"Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America."


"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."


"To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching."


"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."


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


"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."


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