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.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGI get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
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No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.
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I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
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Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda
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I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
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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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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
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There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
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A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
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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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