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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. "

Sonia Sotomayor

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" I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. "

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" I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities. "

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" So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in. "

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" It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society. "

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" The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first. "

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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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" When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started. "

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

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" I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability. "

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" I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals. "

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

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" Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law. "

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" Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people. "

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" To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer. "

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" The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified. "

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" Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. "

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" I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences. "

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" Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. "

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" I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared. "

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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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" It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona. "

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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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" 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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" Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. "

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" I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it. "

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" All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial. "

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" My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law. "

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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 have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought. "

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