Ruth Bader Ginsburg /Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg/ quotes is an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court Born: 03/15/1933 Country: usa

• A plain speaker without airs or affectations, the chief fostered a spirit of collegiality among the nine of us perhaps unparalleled in the court’s history. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [spirit]
• All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [respect/office/power]
• And I want this committee to understand that if we go down this road of putting people’s hearts in play, and the only way you can have a good heart is, Adopt my value system, we’re doing a great disservice to the judiciary. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [value/system]
• Are you saying that if heroin were legalized, the FDA could not regulate it? (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
• Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [capital]
• But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [time]
• Dissents speak to a future age. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [speak/future/age]
• EPA can exercise its supervisory power to block a facility’s construction, … As EPA found, the Alaska department’s own records showed there was scant, if any, evidentiary basis for choosing less stringent emission-reduction technology. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [exercise/power/construction/basis]
• Extra hard not to die in the near future. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [/future]
• Had the school district, in the first instance, offered Brian a public or private school placement equivalent to the one the district ultimately provided, this entire litigation and its attendant costs could have been avoided (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [school/school]
• I assumed, albeit incorrectly, that anyone with a pulse who stood in opposition was a shoe-in. These polls, however, made me realize just how wrong my assumptions were. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
• I do not know of any case where we have impugned a state supreme court the way you are doing in this case. I mean, in case after case, we have said we owe the highest respect to what the … state supreme court says is the state’s law (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [state/respect/state/right]
• I do not want to give here any hints. I would not like to answer that question. I cannot say anything more than I have already said. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [give/question/more]
• I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [equality/equality/choice]
• I will stay away from the living. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [willpower]
• I wonder why law schools waited so long to welcome women? (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [wonder/right]
• In accord with long-standing norm, every member of the current Supreme Court declined to furnish such information. The line each justice drew in response to pre-confirmation questioning is crucial to the health of the federal judiciary. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [norm/awareness//health]
• It confers no privileged status on any particular religious sect, and singles out no bona fide faith for disadvantageous treatment (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [status/faith/treatment]
• It had to register somehow with the Florida courts that that statute was there and that it might be in the state’s best interest not to go around changing the law after the election. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [interest/right]
• It is not like I have gone crazy,I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [take]
• It’s almost like a trust that we are bound to preserve the institution and give it to our successors in the same good condition that we received it. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [trust/give/condition]
• More than tax revenue was at stake (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [more]
• My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [mother/lady]
• My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [mother/lady/right/girls]
• Politics is rearing its head like it has not done before (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [politics]
• School districts are charged with responsibility to offer to each disabled child an individualized education program (IEP) suitable to the child’s special needs. The proponent of the IEP, it seems to me, is properly called upon to demonstrate its adequacy (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [school/responsibility/child/education]
• She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [career/think/support/think]
• So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
• The First Amendment requires us to be vigilant in making these judgments, to guard against undue hindrances to political conversations and the exchange of ideas (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [exchange/]
• The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [state/equality]
• The Ten Commandments are a powerful statement of the covenant God made with his people (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [/god/people]

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