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With competition everyone has to try harder. Harold H. Greene

Competition Try Everyone Harder

Competition is good and has served us well. Harold H. Greene

Good Competition Well Us Served

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority. Harry A. Blackmun

Rights Heart Those Case Individuals Majority Because Makes Issue Precisely Upset Sensitive Choices Should Whose Raised

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. Harry A. Blackmun

Death Machinery Shall Longer Tinker

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. Harry A. Blackmun

Censorship Free Free Speech License Threat Existence Discretion Very Deny Hands Official Chills Placing Creates Grant Speech

When I first took the bench, I was assigned to handle a calendar of criminal cases. It was an enormous docket. I tried in each case to make sure that the litigants not only in fact received, but also felt that they had received, a full and fair opportunity to be heard. Jacqueline Nguyen

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I had been active in various bar associations ever since I was a law student, and I think that also helped because it made me more of a known quantity. Jacqueline Nguyen

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Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. James Mackintosh

Good Sense Good Sense Condensed Maxims Nations

Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect the rights in the Constitution, have to protect the requirement that the executive and the legislature not simply exercise raw power but adhere to standards of reasonableness and constitutionality. Jed S. Rakoff

Constitution Rights People Power Adhere Minorities Raw Simply Individuals Protect Executive Exercise Judges Legislature Requirement Standards Who

Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs. Jed S. Rakoff

Neutral Judges

Once I really got into securities fraud prosecutions, I came to realize how central they were to the maintenance of a free market and how, in many ways, they are far more important to the welfare of our society than many of the more sensational criminal cases that one hears about. Jed S. Rakoff

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I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at his insistence. JFK showed what you could do, though he was a deeply flawed person, as we all now know. Jed S. Rakoff

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Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent. Jed S. Rakoff

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If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place. Jed S. Rakoff

I have a past of making a fool of myself. Jed S. Rakoff

Myself Fool Past Making

One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship. Jed S. Rakoff

About Individual Talent Like How Many Baseball Things

If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don't operate on automatic pilot. There are individuals that make decisions - and some make the right decisions, and some make the wrong decisions. Jed S. Rakoff

People Pilot Other Crimes Some Entities Entity Wrong Individuals Operate Make Committed Automatic Decisions Companies Right Right Decisions

Denying the president a constitutional voice is the real threat to our system of separated powers. Joan Larsen

President Our System Threat Constitutional Voice Powers Real Denying Separated

I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much. Joaquim Barbosa

Politics Speak Mind Temperament Well Because Much Adapt

I think my legacy will be in what most people don't like about me: my style - the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I'm criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail. Joaquim Barbosa

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Actually, I never thought of me being president of Brazil. First of all, I'm not a politician. I never have been, and I think I'm a very unlikely person for this kind of job because of my frankness. I've never dealt with political parties. I have no connections with political parties. So, I don't think so. Joaquim Barbosa

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I have some role models. In Brazil, they are mostly writers. A writer named Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto is my favorite. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is also a very important figure for me. Joaquim Barbosa

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