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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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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
"I would not like to be the only woman on the court."
"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."
"There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court."
"I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence."
"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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"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
"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."
"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."
"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work."
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