I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I suspect that over time we will rely increasingly, or take notice at least increasingly, on international and foreign courts in examining… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I like to think that the court will continue to be held in high regard by the public. I think it should… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food, and drink beer and make friends? That's the question.… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
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… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature,… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
