There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGA constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
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Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.
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Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.
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Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
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Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.
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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.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
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