Sandra Day O'Connor 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don’t know how much history young women today know about those battles.

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• 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.

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• Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

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• I’m 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, it’s terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don’t like.

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• 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. That’s set out in the Constitution.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person’s standing in the political community.

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• We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

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• The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

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• We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.

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• My hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

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• A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

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• The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men’s and women’s earnings for the same work.

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• It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

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• 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.

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Sandra Day O'Connor (39)

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

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