Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Life, Alone, Another

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Time, Best, Person

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Leadership, Eyes, Path

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
Sandra Day O'Connor

History, Concern, Amendment

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Nature, Family, Person

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Important, Woman, Decide

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Politics, Fear, Find

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Respect, Society, May

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.
Sandra Day O'Connor

End, Country, After

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Education, Good, Children

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Women, Wonderful, Changes

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Success, Nation, Felt

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Freedom, Democracy, Problem

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Women, History, Today

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Silence, Moment, Religious

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
Sandra Day O'Connor

War, Nation, State

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Pretty, Young, Off

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Yourself, Voting, Express

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Experience, Job, Whatever

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Government, School, Making

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Country, Beyond, Borders

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Time, Judge, Decision

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Good, Job, Short

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Education, Become, Nation

I need to retire from retirement.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Retirement, Retire

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Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: March 26, 1930

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