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Judges are real people with real-world experiences and backgrounds. We cannot expect them to erase their experiences and backgrounds from the mindset that informs their judicial decision-making.

People will judge you according to your own convictions.

You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

It would bother me if a judge told me how I had to believe.

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith in dicta. A brief experience on the bench was enough to reveal to me all sorts of cracks and crevices and loopholes in my own opinions when picked up a few months after delivery and reread with due contrition.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.