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" I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can. "

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" I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do. "

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" The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house. "

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

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" Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge. "

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" I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous. "

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" I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate. "

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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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