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Stephen Breyer Quotes
And if a judge is going to be criticized for letting off a person and it turns out that person was innocent, that would be a pretty bad criticism. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - whats going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way? - Stephen Breyer Quotes
At least theres a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
At the same time, we do live in a democracy. And for that reason I think it is appropriate to have some element of public control. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain theres some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, youll get another group of people doing it. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
Independence doesnt mean you decide the way you want. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
It doesnt help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
Its important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
Judges are appointed often through the political process. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
Once youre in a system where there are contributions being made, its certainly not the case that everybody expects something back. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there arent loads of countries where theyre followed. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
We developed a system of protecting human liberty such that judges and independent judges are a necessary part of that protection. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
Well its fairly important that everyone have a lawyer and so we have a system that you cant convict a person without a lawyer, even if hes guilty. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
Would I want to be judged by whether or not I was popular? Wouldnt I want to be judged on what was true as opposed to what might be popular? - Stephen Breyer Quotes
You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts. - Stephen Breyer Quotes
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