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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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"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."
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"A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena."
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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night."
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"Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court."
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"The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech."
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"If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall."
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"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."
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"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."
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"Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them."
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"I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases."
Will
"I need to retire from retirement."
Retirement
"Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability."
Society
"Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents."
Country
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
Liberty
"Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances."
Woman
"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work."
Education
"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."
American
"I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job."
Job
"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community."
Government
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