8 Quotes by Thomas Baker

He emerged as an administrator to be reckoned with, a big-league administrator who embraced that role.

Our defense was much better. We just got outmanned. They were much bigger than us. We got pounded on the boards.

to me, the shadow she cast was that everyone in the jury was anti-government.

In Burger's heyday they were deciding 150 cases a year -- so many that they were talking about creating an intermediate appellate court to handle some of the load. Rehnquist comes in, and with the platform of being chief justice, all that disappears, to the point where the Court is being criticized for taking too few cases.

His first priority is to gain the respect and confidence and trust of his colleagues.

The chief justice is the titular head of the third branch in the U.S. and abroad. You're looking for someone with the intellectual and leadership skills that can be a persuasive force in conference and the wider world.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein.

The more familiar something becomes the more true we think it to be. Advertisers, teachers and even cult leaders will repeat their messages over and over to illicit this effect. If we hear a lie often enough, we’ll start to believe it.