John Paul Stevens

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Well, in my job, I avoid political commentary.

I think maybe the people in elected positions are more interested in preserving their jobs than in doing the best job possible.

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

When I joined the Supreme Court in 1975, both state and federal judges accepted the Court's unanimous decision in United States v. Miller as having established that the Second Amendment's protection of the right to bear arms was possessed only by members of the militia and applied only to weapons used by the militia.

Sam Alito replacing Justice O'Connor was a very significant change. He is much more conservative. And, as for John Roberts, he is much more in the direction of protecting the rights of very rich people to donate money to campaigns than Bill Rehnquist ever was.

I announced my dissent in the Citizens United orally, and I stumbled in my announcement. I had a little difficulty expressing myself. And that was out of character.

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.

I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It's true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views.

Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.

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

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.