It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

- Rose Bird

...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them…

- Rose Bird

We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it.... That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. I…

- Rose Bird

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

- Rose Bird

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

- Rose Bird

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

- Rose Bird

The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

- Rose Bird

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

- Rose Bird

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the peopl…

- Rose Bird