People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost. Stephen Breyer Read Quote
At least there’s a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. Stephen Breyer Read Quote
There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren’t loads of countries where they’re followed. Stephen Breyer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there’s some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less. Stephen Breyer Read Quote
I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you’ll get another group of people doing it. Stephen Breyer Read Quote
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? Stephen Breyer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
