I Have Been A Judge For 15

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.

The First Amendment, I Think, Is The Jewel Of Our Constitution.

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.

I Know From My Own Experience As A Parent That Parents Probably Teach Most Powerfully Not Through Their Words But Through Their Deeds. And My Parents Taught Me Through The Stories Of Their Lives. And I Don't Take Any Credit For The Things That They Did Or The Things That They Experienced, But They Made A Great Impression On Me.

I Think That What My Parents Taught Me About Hard Work, Optimism And Education Still Holds True.