Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
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I didn't want to be out of order answering any questions.
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If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.
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The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
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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.
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I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.
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Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
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For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.
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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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It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.
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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.
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I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are important in our country, but they're not things that most citizens know much about.
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How dare you make my life a felony.
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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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Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.
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You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
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We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.
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You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.
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The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
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This chance will stand before you only once.
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We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.
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I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.
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If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
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I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.