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" When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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" Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like. "

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Who

" There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year. "

" People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.' "

" In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them. "

" I was a proponent of the ERA. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Era

Proponent

" You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. "

" I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at. "

" Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. "

" When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. "

" My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Powerful

Mother

" Whatever final judgment awaits 'Bush v. Gore' in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair. "

" I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women. "

" America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow. "

" I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women. "

" I'm sure I've changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up - as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I've changed my mind about some food that I didn't like when I was young. "

" I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others. "

" All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. "

" There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Know

Judges

" I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers. "

" I've had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O'Connor told me, 'Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you'll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.' "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Weekend

Monday

" The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections. "

" A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage. "

" My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications. "

" If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. "