Stephen Breyer

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.

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

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.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.