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“The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.”

Sandra Day O'Connor · Power

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Sandra Day O'Connor

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.

Freedom

Sandra Day O'Connor

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

Experience

Sandra Day O'Connor

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

Loneliness

Sandra Day O'Connor

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

Government