"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."

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Source : "Justice For Sale (Update)". "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. February 19, 2010.

Anthony Kennedy

#Philosophy Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Ham with mustard is a meal of glory”
“...God's love is so real that He created you to prove it.”
“Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.”
“Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.”
“Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.”
“In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment.”
“No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave [...] Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.”
“Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.”

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