Breyer's Quotes

#1. I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.

Dan Fogler

#2. 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

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

Stephen Breyer

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.

John McCain

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

Stephen Breyer

#8. I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

Jim Breyer

#9. The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, including China, India, Brazil, and Australia, and AlwaysOn events are on top of these trends.

Jim Breyer

#10. The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

Stephen Breyer

#11. Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

Stephen Breyer

#12. 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

#13. Open mindedness is not blank mindedness, open mindedness is being prepared to change your view when presented with a better set of proofs and arguments.

Stephen Breyer

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

Stephen Breyer

#15. I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what is the justification for saying no gay marriage? Certainly not the one you said, is it?

Stephen Breyer

#16. I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

Jim Breyer

#17. Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Stephen Breyer

#18. 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

#19. Judges are appointed often through the political process.

Stephen Breyer

#20. 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

#21. I think that we should all be defined by our work and our results.

Jim Breyer

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

Stephen Breyer

#23. I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

Jim Breyer

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

Stephen Breyer

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. I voted for Justice Breyer and Justice Ginsburg. Not because I agreed with their ideology, but because I thought they were qualified and that elections have consequences when presidents are nominated.

John McCain

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

Stephen Breyer

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

Stephen Breyer

#30. No person is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus

Avery Breyer

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

Stephen Breyer

#32. The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a game, a healthcare application, an education application - building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed.

Jim Breyer

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

Stephen Breyer

#34. Startup success is driven most by the product passion, quality, vision, team-work and persistence of the founding team and the talent that the team attracts.

Jim Breyer

#35. This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions.

Stephen Breyer

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

Stephen Breyer

#37. The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.

Stephen Breyer

#38. Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

Stephen Breyer

#39. 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