Top 23 Quotes by Stephen Breyer

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

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.

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

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

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

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

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

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.