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'Whole Women's Health' made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional.
We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.
My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.
I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.
Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.
I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.
The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.
American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.
I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'
Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.
My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.
Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.
It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled.
The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.
Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.
There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
If you want know what sort of a justice I would make, then look at what sort of a judge I have been.
To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.
All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.
You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.
At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.
Some people are inherently likeable. If you're not - work on it. It may even improve your social life.
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.
I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.
As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt.
I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.
Some people choose not to engage the battle and then don't seek out that kind of success. And others do.
I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.
It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost