I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are important in our country, but they're not things that most citizens know much about.

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

[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

I think most people didn't want to do court duty.

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.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.