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"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."
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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 courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried."
"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."
"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself."
"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."
"Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents."
"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."
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
"Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values."
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"In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court."
"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."
"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
"My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity."
"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."
"I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial."
"He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications."
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