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It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don’t want to be working full-time. I agree that that’s an issue.

Sandra Day O'Connor

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
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.
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Government Successful Two
(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
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Atheism Firsts Religion
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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Criticism Decision Thinking
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
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
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Borders Country Looks
I’m a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it’s terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don’t like.
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Decision Judging People
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
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Generations Government Teach
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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Hope Politics Wonderful Years
Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It’s possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
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Civility Conflict Manners
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
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Argument Court Gender
My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.
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Country House Special System World
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
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Leadership Procrastination Sports
We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.
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Approved Today Use Years
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
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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Court Regard Thinking

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don’t want to be working full-time. I agree that that’s an issue.

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It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don’t want to be working full-time. I agree that that’s an issue.

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