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Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
A moment of silence is not inherently religious. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
I dont know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
I need to retire from retirement. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
Im a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, its terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people dont like. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
It is a measure of the framers fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
My hope is that 10 years from now, after Ive been across the street at work for a while, theyll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a persons standing in the political community. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasnt a woman in the United States who didnt write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between mens and womens earnings for the same work. - Sandra Day Oconnor Quotes
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