So Quoted

"You have to assume good faith, even on the part of people with whom you disagree. If you don't assume good faith, it makes matters personal, and it makes it harder to reach a good result, and in my experience, it normally isn't even true. The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says."

 

US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, quoted in The New Yorker, Oct. 31, 2005