It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.
More Quotes from Stephen Breyer:
And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.Stephen Breyer
But the wonderful thing about human memory is, it forgets, ... And so you always have another chance. People don't remember after a time. The computer remembers forever. There it is picture recorded.
Stephen Breyer
Would I want to be judged by whether or not I was popular Wouldn't I want to be judged on what was true as opposed to what might be popular
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
Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.
Stephen Breyer
Breyer said, ''that certainly looks to text, certainly looks to history, certainly looks to tradition and precedent -- but that also emphasizes heavily the purpose of this particular provision and the consequences as viewed in terms of the purposes, is more likely to get at what this law is about, what area of human life it is seeking to affect and how. That's what I think the essence of law is.
Stephen Breyer
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.Margo MacDonald
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
Theodor Adorno
So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.
Marian McPartland