top of page
"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."
Standard
Customized
More

"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."
Author Name
Personal Development

"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."
Author Name
Personal Development

"He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications."
Author Name
Personal Development

"What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court."
Author Name
Personal Development

"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."
Author Name
Personal Development

"There was no hostility at the court when I arrived."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline.""
Author Name
Personal Development

"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
Author Name
Personal Development

"My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"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."
Court

"There was no hostility at the court when I arrived."
Court

"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

"It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution."
Society

"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."
History

"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."
Work

"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."
Court

"I need to retire from retirement."
Retirement

"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."
Education

"The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases."
Court
bottom of page