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" I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me. "
Sonia Sotomayor
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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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" You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. "
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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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" Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. "
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" I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth. "
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" All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know. "
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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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" When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain results in certain situations. And so people seem to think this predictability is based on some kind of partisan political view. But it's not. "
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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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" The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever. "
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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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" If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. "
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" When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid. "
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" My diabetes is such a central part of my life... it did teach me discipline... it also taught me about moderation... I've trained myself to be super-vigilant... because I feel better when I am in control. "
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" I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions. "
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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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" I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous. "
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