60 Quotes by Stephen Breyer

Judges are appointed often through the political process.

It’s important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

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 – what’s going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

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.

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.

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.