John Paul Stevens

Judge

31 Quotes

But I wound like people to think I was an honest judge and a good judge. And I always tried the reach the best result in every case.

For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation.

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

I have been opposed to ceremonies at the White House. It gives the impression that the court is subordinate to the executive, which I think is quite wrong.

When I signed on to letting the death penalty back in, I thought the procedural protections against executing an innocent person were stronger than they turned out to be.

I'm a person who plays Ping-Pong once in a while.

While money is used to finance speech, money is not speech.

I always prided myself on my ability to choose good clerks, and one of the key elements was whether I thought I would like the person.

Of course, when I joined the Navy and when I took up the correspondence course in cryptography, I had to sign an oath that I would never reveal what sort of work I was involved in. It was only some years after the war that Congress passed a statute relieving me of that obligation.

Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned.

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