#judges

Judges are appointed often through the political process. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

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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. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

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

— Warren E. Burger

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There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise. ↗

— Robert Duncan

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But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there. ↗

— Judge Mills Lane

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. ↗

— Jane Porter

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What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

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The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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