I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.

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

I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

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.

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

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.