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

Stephen Breyer, American Judge

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Stephen Breyer, American Judge

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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."

"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."

"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."

"It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent."

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

"Judges are appointed often through the political process."

"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."

"Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts."

"Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants."

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