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.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWomen will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Ruth Bader GinsburgGeneralizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description.
Ruth Bader GinsburgMembers of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.
Ruth Bader GinsburgHistorically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg