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Sandra Day O'Connor

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

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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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"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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"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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"Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person."
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"I need to retire from retirement."
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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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"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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"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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"Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment."
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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 form one to another that creates something."
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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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