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" I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it. "

Sonia Sotomayor

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" I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. "

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" It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. "

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" I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law. "

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" I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity. "

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" I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me. "

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" I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life. "

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" The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law. "

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" We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts. "

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" I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it. "

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" I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time. "

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" I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences. "

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" I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good. "

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" You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. "

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" With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that. "

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" What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image. "

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" I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. "

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" I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered. "

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" When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all. "

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" I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. "

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" I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they. "

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" I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. "

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" I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them. "

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" The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever. "

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" All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent. "

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" If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be. "

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" My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. "

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" A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time. "

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" Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy. "

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" I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up. "

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