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Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues.
I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues.
If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.
If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.
One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.
The option of solicitor advocacy came on the scene a bit too late for me.
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.
There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.
And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.
Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.
I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.
I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.
In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.
Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.
The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.
It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.
The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.
And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.
I deal in facts.
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