I finally gave up my little law practice and stayed home for about three years. You have to do what you can to keep the family going. But I wanted to get back to work. So I got another babysitter and went to work as an Assistant Attorney General.
SANDRA DAY O'CONNORMy hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
More Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
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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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I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are important in our country, but they’re not things that most citizens know much about.
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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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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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We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
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How dare you make my life a felony.
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If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
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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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I think it’s inevitable that some of the court’s decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.
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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn’t a group decision.
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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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If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness – and there is no better way to do that than by example – their children will probably follow.
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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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Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
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