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"We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination."
"This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court."
"Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them."
"If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him."
"Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court."
"It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay."
"We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone."
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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."
"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."
"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community."
"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."
"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."
"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."
"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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