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 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.
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.
Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
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, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.
Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle rancher. That was what I knew and that was what I liked.
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.
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.
A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
