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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
"I would not like to be the only woman on the court."
"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."
"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."
"In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked."
"There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court."
"I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence."
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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."
"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."
"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."
"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."
"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."
"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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