60 Quotes by Stephen Breyer

The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.

This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution’s demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions.

I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can’t have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what is the justification for saying no gay marriage? Certainly not the one you said, is it?

It doesn’t help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

Independence doesn’t mean you decide the way you want.

The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it’s fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it’s not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren’t loads of countries where they’re followed.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

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.