Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connoris a retired associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until her retirement in 2006. She was the first woman to be appointed to the Court...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth26 March 1930
CityEl Paso, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Sandra Day O'Connor quotes about
imbalance rooms gains
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.
law constitution cases
I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.
rights talking constitution
I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.
jobs good-day cutting
I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.
children parent way
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.
court cases reviews
Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
school dark court-judges
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
difficult-questions church answers
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?
lawyer professors young
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.
war rights citizens
A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
cyberspace internet geography
Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.
government doe burning
The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut.
retirement needs retiring
I need to retire from retirement.
integrity government people
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