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My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

Source: In The Nation, 18 Jan 1986.
-- Rose Elizabeth Bird, (Nov 2 1936-1999), US justice; She was the first woman chief justice of California.

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