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Stephen Breyer

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

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

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

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I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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