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"Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has."
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"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."
Work
"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."
Country
"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."
Court
"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."
Court
"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."
Fear
"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."
Life
"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."
Attention
"Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents."
Country
"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something."
Life
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
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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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"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has."
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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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"In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court."
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"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."
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"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
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"My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity."
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"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."
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