If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I do not believe it is the function of the judiciary to step in and change the law because the times have… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the… — 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
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