Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

• My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

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  Tags in Judging, Extrapolate

• No matter how liberal I am, I’m still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sympathize, Liberal

• I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

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  Tags in Circumstance, Constitution

• I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

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  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Strive, Consequences

• Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

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  Topics in Society

  Tags in Equal, Equality

• I wouldn’t approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can’t rely on what’s in their heart. They don’t determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.

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  Tags in Approach

• It’s not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it’s the law.

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  Tags in Heart

• Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the ‘supreme law of the land,’ in most instances they’re not even law.

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  Tags in Constitution

• With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that’s been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that – there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

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  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in School

• I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

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  Tags in Law, Believe

• I hope that as the Senate and the American people learn more about me they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

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  Tags in People, Hope

• This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.

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  Tags in Wealth

• I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation’s finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

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  Tags in Project

• Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

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  Tags in Facts, Affect

• Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

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  Topics in Experience

• All of the legal defense funds out there, they’re looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don’t make law, I know. I know.

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  Tags in Defense

• We apply law to facts. We don’t apply feelings to facts.

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  Tags in Facts, Apply

• I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration – that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

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  Tags in People

• Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Circumstances

• I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.

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  Tags in Hope, Woman

Sonia Sotomayor (22)

Birth:	25th June, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Judge, Lawyer

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