"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no oth..."
"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life."
"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."
"Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation."
"Whatever final judgment awaits 'Bush v. Gore' in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair."
"He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines."
"I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time."
"Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently."
"I think some of my colleagues' spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say."
"There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar."
"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind."
"I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth."
"Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation."
"Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism."
"My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women."
"The Court's legitimacy arises from the source of its authority - which is, of course, the Constitution - and is best preserved by adhering to decision methods that neither expand nor contract but legitimize the power of judicial review."
"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."
"The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates."
"Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like."
"There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera."
"It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism."
"When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens."
"I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes."
"It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it."
"I never saw the play, although I heard it was good."
"I watched 'The Sopranos,' I saw a couple of episodes of 'Mad Men.' I loved 'Seinfeld.' In fact, I got some CDs of 'Seinfeld.' 'Seinfeld' was hilarious. Oh, boy. The Nazi soup kitchen? 'No soup for you!'"
