Sandra Day O'Connor 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.

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• 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.

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• Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

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• I don’t know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job

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• 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.

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• When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn’t do it.

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• 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.

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• Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

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• Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

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• I need to retire from retirement.

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• Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

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• I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

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• I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O’Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

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• The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member – male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

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• 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 wasn’t a woman in the United States who didn’t write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

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• 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.

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• The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.

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• There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

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• What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

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• 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.

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Sandra Day O'Connor (39)

Birth:	26th March, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Judge, Lawyer

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