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I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.

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Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

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I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.

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I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

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It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

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Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

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There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

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All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

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When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

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When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: June 25th, 1954

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