Quotes by Sandra Day O'Connor

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

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.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

You have citizens who don’t understand how government works and they’re kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

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.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.