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"There was no hostility at the court when I arrived."
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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."
"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."
"He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications."
"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
"My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity."
"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."
"I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night."
"The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases."
"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."
"Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court."
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"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."
"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."
"Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability."
"Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents."
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
"Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances."
"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."
"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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