"I'm arguing for progressive positions on behalf of a progressive administration in front of a court who, before Justice [Antonin] Scalia's death, had a conservative majority that was quite conservative, frankly."

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Source : "Farewell to the General". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

Donald Verrilli Jr.

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“The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.”
“A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.”
“Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.”
“Have you ever been - well, I mean, have you ever - really wanted someone? Wanted them like water in the desert - even when you knew all their faults, every single one - and it didn't matter ?”

Source : Kate Quinn (2010). “Mistress of Rome”, p.169, Penguin
“I don't think I have any bad features.”
“I take pride in just knowing how to do things. Whenever a coach tells me to do something, I always try to do it the way he said or do it to my best ability.”
“Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.”
“Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.”

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