Best Sandra Day O'connor Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

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#4. 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.

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#5. A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

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#6. 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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#7. 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.

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#8. As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

Edward Kennedy

#9. 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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#10. I need to retire from retirement.

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#11. In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called upon to decide. It provides the stability and continuity for the rule of law.

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#12. So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food, and drink beer and make friends? That's the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we'll come out of it all right.

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#13. Not that I've always agreed with what she said - far from it - but Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been properly lauded, in my view, as a judge who approached her duties with open-mindedness and with a sensitivity that affects her decisions would have on everyday, ordinary people.

Joe Biden

#14. Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

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#15. Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

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#16. 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.

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#17. Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle rancher. That was what I knew and that was what I liked.

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#18. A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people ... Public records are one portal through which the people observe their government, ensuring its accountability, integrity, and equity while minimizing sovereign mischief and malfeasance

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#19. I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.

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#20. She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] rejected the [George] Bush administration's claim that it could indefinitely detain a United States citizen. She upheld the fundamental principle of judicial review over the exercise of government power.

Patrick Leahy

#21. Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

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#22. As we have seen from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's example, even one justice can profoundly alter the meaning of those words for our citizens. Even one justice can deeply affect the rights and liberties of the American people.

Edward Kennedy

#23. Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.

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#24. August 19, 1981: President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman on the Supreme Court. Male justices who had made noises over the years about resigning if a woman ever joined their ranks stay put.

Irin Carmon

#25. I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

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#26. The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.

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#27. Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie ... Would that be intimidating?

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#28. I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

Patricia Ireland

#29. 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.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#30. 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.

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#31. Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

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#32. She [Justice Sandra Day O'Connor], unlike, Judge Bork, did not think that being on the court would be an "intellectual feast," to quote Judge [Robert Heron] Bork.

Joe Biden