Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

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

Sandra Day O'Connor

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• I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.

  

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• I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.

  

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• I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.

  

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

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• On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

  

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• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  

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• The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

  

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• I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

  

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• Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

  

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• I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

  

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• You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

  

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• Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

  

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• Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

  

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• We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision. He's extremely thoughtful and sees grand issues both social and political in an interesting way. Quite honestly, I wasn't certain how some of his ideas were applicable to the screenplay, but he was heartfelt and adamant about them. And I remember completely going with it.

  

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• I think that Matt Murdock, the way he kind of holds himself, he's quite sensible at times, and he's quite serious. I think he would admire Captain America - not that he wouldn't admire Iron Man, but I think he probably be a little put off by his grandiosity.

  

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• I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

  

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• It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

  

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• It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.

  

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

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Religious
  • Serious
  • Politics