Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

  • The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.