Quotes About Sandra Day O'Connor

I have great respect for Sandra Day O'Connor. She has broken so many barriers for women in the law, and was a master negotiator and pragmatist in her days on the Supreme Court.

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.

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

I think most people didn't want to do court duty.

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.