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" If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs. "
Sonia Sotomayor
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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 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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" 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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" 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 honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor. "
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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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" It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand. "
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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 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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" 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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" You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. "
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" It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. "
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" Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich. "
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" We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts. "
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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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" 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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" 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'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous. "
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" My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not. "
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" An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. "
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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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" 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 am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing. "
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