Best Sonia Sotomayor Quotations
- I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx.… Able
- I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother… Angry
- I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural… Accept
- I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we… Accept
- I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its… Action
- I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have… Asked
- I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds… Always Looking
- I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor… Candor
- I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others… Agenda
- I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop… Became
- I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear,… Came
- I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the… Apply
- I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what… Adjusted
- If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law,… Broken
- If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter… Competitive
- If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's… Achieve
- In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that… Ask
- It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always… Always Evolving
- My diabetes is such a central part of my life... it did teach me discipline... it also taught me about moderation... I've trained myself to… Better
- My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply… Accept
- Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or… All
- Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that… Accept
- The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work… Ends
- The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want… Era
- There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance… Action
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