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"I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere."

"I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between."

"Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire."

"Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors."

"Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly."

"There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more."

"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."

"Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers."

"I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement."
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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."


"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."


"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work."


"I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like."


"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."


"The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue."
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