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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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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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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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.

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And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of... by Stephen Breyer

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

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Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decide... by Stephen Breyer

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

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I am very pleased to return to Harvard to teach there and to write, among other things, I will likely try to explain why I believe it important that the next generations of those associated with the law engage in work, and take approaches to law, that help the great American constitutional experiment work effectively for the American people.

Many States have tried to address some of the dangers of gun violence just described by passing laws that limit, in various ways, who may purchase, carry or use forearms of different kinds, the Court today severely burdens States' efforts to do so.

( T) Chief Justice John Roberts Court's decisions in Trinity Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza prohibit States from denying aid to religious schools solely because of a school's religious status — that is, its affiliation with or control by a religious organization, but Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza have never said that the Free Exercise Clause prohibits States from withholding funds because of the religious use to which the money will be put.

Pretty similar to what we just allowed in that case of the attorney general.

We know already that our government treated Zubaydah brutally -- more than 80 waterboarding sessions, hundreds of hours of live burial and what it calls' rectal rehydration,' but as embarrassing as these facts may be, there is no state secret here.

I had thought President Joe Biden EPA have a whole Stephen Breyer Code filled with delegations to different agencies, and many of those words are fairly technical, is it a minor matter having to do with administration that they're more familiar with ? Is it something that's going to change the whole United States of America -- that cuts the other way ?

Those were [ Lincoln's ] words.

I will tell you what Lincolnthought and what Washingtonthought and what people todaystill think.It's an experiment, associated Press's an experiment.That's what they said.And Joanna [ Breyer's wife ] paid each of our grandchildrencertain amount of money tomemorize the Gettysburg Address.What I want the students to pickup, if I can remember, are thefirst two lines, ‘ Four score andseven years ago, our forefathersbrought upon -- created a newcountry.A country that was dedicated toliberty and the proposition thatall men are created equal.Conceived in liberty. ’.

This question may seem naive and simple-minded.

It's an institution that's fallible, though over time it has served this country pretty well.

I mean, eventually I ’ll retire, sure I will, and it’s hard to know exactly when.

I don’t think I’m going to stay there till I die — hope not.

[T]hink twice, at least, … If A can do it, B can do it. And what are you going to have when you have A and B doing it?

It's an institution that's fallible, though over time it has served this country pretty well, as Mother used to say : every race, every religion, every point of view possible is held by people in this country. And it's helped them to live together.

I think everyone can agrees that this is a beautiful painting.