Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
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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.
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A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
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The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.
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Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never matched very effectively the percentages of law graduates out of graduating classes. We have far more than we ever did before and it's continued to grow, but it isn't a nice match yet.
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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 in his ability to take care of himself.
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I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.
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Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.
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Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.
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Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
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Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
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I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.
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Government endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.
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And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
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A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the people observe their government, ensuring its accountability, integrity, and equity while minimizing sovereign mischief and malfeasance
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I didn't want to be out of order answering any questions.
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In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
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The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
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As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.
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I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.
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We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
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Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
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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 product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.
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The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art.
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The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.