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Stephen Breyer Quotes

Stephen Breyer quotes

American Judge August 15, 1938

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The Court has a special responsibility to ensure that the Constitution works in practice. While education, including the transmission of our civic values from one generation to the next, must play the major role in maintaining public confidence in the Court's decisions, the Court too must help maintain public acceptance of its own legitimacy. It can do this best by helping ensure that the Constitution remains "workable" in a broad sense of the term. Specifically, it can and should... Stephen Breyer
Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him. Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer quote: "People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If..."
People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost. Stephen Breyer
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
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
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
Stephen Breyer quote: "Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or..."
Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants. Stephen Breyer
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
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
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. Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer quote: "It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are..."
It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent. Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer quote: "But once the person is selected, at that point that person is..."
But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent. Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer quote: "I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing..."
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
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. Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer quote: "Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of..."
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment. Stephen Breyer

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