Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

• The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person’s standing in the political community.

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• 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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• We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

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• The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

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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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• 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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• I’m a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it’s terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don’t like.

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• The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

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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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• 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 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.

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• 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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• 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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• My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.

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• There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

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• Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty – one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

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Sandra Day O'Connor (39)

Birth:	26th March, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Judge, Lawyer

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