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Sandra Day O'Connor
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“Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.”
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“[After attorney Harry McCall said in court, 'I would like to remind you gentlemen of a legal point':] Would you like to remind me, too?”
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“Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.”
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“... being a member of the court is a lot like walking through fresh concrete. Do you remember doing that as a child and leaving a footprint and it hardens after you? I'm afraid that's what we do and we look back and we see those opinions we've written and they've sort of hardened after us.”
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“I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.”
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“The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.”
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“[On her early days in a mall law office collecting unpaid grocery bills:] People don't ordinarily look forward to starting at the bottom. While you may be a lowly foot soldier ... no one knows more about solving a problem than the person at the bottom.”
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“Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?”
Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court justice, adjudicator
(1930)