60 Quotes by Stephen Breyer

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

Would I want to be judged by whether or not I was popular? Wouldn't I want to be judged on what was true as opposed to what might be popular?

We developed a system of protecting human liberty such that judges and independent judges are a necessary part of that protection.

I would guess my law clerks could meet (that standard) every day,

But the wonderful thing about human memory is, it forgets, ... And so you always have another chance. People don't remember after a time. The computer remembers forever. There it is: picture recorded.

He says, 'I've seen 50 million paintings, I know magenta,'

he joked later, while being photographed in his garden, ''my job is to look stiff without being stiff.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

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.