Words could paint pictures.
RUTH BADER GINSBURGMy 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.
More Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes
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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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Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
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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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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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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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Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.
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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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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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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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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
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There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.
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