It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGIf we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
-
-
When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Dissents speak to a future age.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
An operatic voice is like no other.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG