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My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America.

- Merrick Garland

Border, Eastern, Better Life

It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.

- Merrick Garland

Drones, Agency, Affecting, National Security

They tell you in Washington that if you want a friend, get a dog. That is not true. Get a family. This is a hard place to be.

- Merrick Garland

Want, Tell, Get, Hard Place

The great joy of being a prosecutor is that you don't take whatever case walks in the door. You evaluate the case; you make your best judgement. You only go forward if you believe that the defendant is guilty.

- Merrick Garland

Door, Forward, Judgement, Defendant

Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that.

- Merrick Garland

Think, Everybody, I Think, Oliver

For me, there can be no higher public service than serving as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

- Merrick Garland

Service, Than, Public, Serving

As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.

- Merrick Garland

Gift, Words, Deeds, Serving

Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.

- Merrick Garland

Government, Interest, Vital

I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.

- Merrick Garland

Think, Been, I Think, Prosecutor

The obligation of the judge in the circuit is to follow the previous decisions in the circuit unless those decisions are overruled by an en bloc panel of the court.

- Merrick Garland

Follow, Circuit, Previous, Obligation

People must be confident that a judge's decisions are determined by the law and only the law. He must be faithful to the Constitution and statutes passed by Congress. Fidelity to the Constitution and the law has been the cornerstone of my life and the hallmark of the kind of judge I have tried to be.

- Merrick Garland

My Life, Constitution, Been, Determined

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