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And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

Sandra Day O'Connor

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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Majority might Politics Value
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
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Leadership Procrastination Sports
It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don’t want to be working full-time. I agree that that’s an issue.
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Children Issues Want
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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Attention Firsts Media
The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool; every generation has to learn it. And I’m not sure the recent generations have done that good a job of learning about it.
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Constitution Done Pool
I like to think that the court will continue to be held in high regard by the public. I think it should be.
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Court Regard Thinking
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
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Borders Country Looks
If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
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Death May Penalty Statistics
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
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Lawyers Professors Young
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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Ability Alzheimer Heartbreaking Husband
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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Approved Today Use Years
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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Gains Imbalance Rooms
The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination …is an unfortunate reality…and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.
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Government Persistence Reality
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
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Generations Government Teach
I do not believe it is the function of the judiciary to step in and change the law because the times have changed. I do well understand the difference between legislating and judging. As a judge, it is not my function to develop public policy.
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Believe Changed Law Times
I’m not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody’s waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.
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Justice Philosophy Waiting

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