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"I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences."
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"I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been."
"There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today."
"Today's experience prepares you for better tomorrow."
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"Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
"I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law."
"This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear."
"All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know."
"I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences."
"Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich."
"With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects."
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