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I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
Wisdom
Age
Levels
Thinking
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[On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
Long
This World
World
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Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
Cry
Sometimes
Tears
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If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
Dresses
Ifs
Thinking
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I didnt know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
Court
Know How
Knows
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I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
Court
Cared
How Much
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Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
Administration
Independent
Investigation
Good People Who
Charge
Hairy
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Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
Government
Abuse
Branches
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What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
Looks
Mouths
Sides
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Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our system of laws depends on lowly citizens and presidents abiding by court rulings.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
Judging
Law
Order
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[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
Grandchildren
Justice
Thinking
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I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
Back When
Carrying On
Presidential
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Throughout our history, the Supreme Court has entered national crises, often preventing presidents from doing what they want to do. Indeed, sometimes the court's verdicts are not vindicated by history. And yet presidents have complied with those rulings.
Nina Totenberg / Correspondent
President
Sometimes
Want
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