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My 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.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn’t a group decision.
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Clerks Decision Justice
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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Appreciate Gratitude Thinking
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.
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Democracy Intimidation Judging
[G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.
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Church Community Political
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 freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
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Democracy Healthy Judging
How dare you make my life a felony.
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Dare Felony Gay Lgbt
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 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
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
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
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Learning Tasks Time
Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
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Doubt Jurisprudence Liberty
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
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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Children Example Parent
I think most people didn’t want to do court duty.
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Duty People Thinking Want
It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.
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Focus Media Too Much

My 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.

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