I didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.