Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

How dare you make my life a felony.

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

I'm not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody's waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.