It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.

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.

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

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.

My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a product of state government in my own state of Arizona. And it seemed to me that the popular election of judges was creating major problems in many states, and we had improved the system in Arizona. And I thought the nation ought to at least rethink how we select our nation's trial judges in the states.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.