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"The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases."
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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."
"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."
"Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court."
"If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall."
"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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"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."
"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."
"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work."
"My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own."
"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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