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It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

Judges are appointed often through the political process.

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

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

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.