"But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security."

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Source : "Inside Politics" with Candy Crowley, edition.cnn.com. March 14, 2005.

Arlen Specter

#Jobs Quotes #Judging Quotes #Our Society Quotes

“I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.”
“He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or cicadas. Something was out there. An intruder of which the ordinary forest creatures clearly did not approve. He took a deep breath and held it again, straining to hear the slightest movement in the woods. This time he detected the rustle of brush, a snapping twig, the soft crunch of dry leaves-and the unnervingly peculiar, heavy, ragged breathing of something big.”
“Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.”
“See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.”
“I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.”
“It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.”
“A life not lived for others is not a life.”
“To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away”

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