How dare you make my life a felony.

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.

We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.

My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.