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"There was no hostility at the court when I arrived."
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"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."
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"My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity."
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"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."
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"Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court."
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"The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court."
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"Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day."
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"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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"It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated."
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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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"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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"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
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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."
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"Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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