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Peace surely is a good reason, yes. But there are other reasons too.

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The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

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My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty. Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.

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I've learned a lot during my years on the 3rd Circuit, particularly, I think, about the way in which a judge should go about the work of judging. I've learned by doing, by sitting on all of these cases. And I think I've also learned from the examples of some really remarkable colleagues.

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My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire. Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning.

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I attended the public schools. And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors.

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My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey. And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

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