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"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."
"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
"You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world."
"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."
"I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private."
"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."
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"And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?"
"I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less."
"To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty."
"I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it."
"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."
"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."
"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
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