Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

The Second Amendment has a preamble about the need for a militia. Because there is a need for a militia to be at the ready, therefore the right to keep and bear arms must be secured.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about our judicial system.

My dissenting opinions, like my briefs, are intended to persuade. And sometimes one must be forceful about saying how wrong the Court's decision is.

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

I'm not very good at promotion.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent

I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

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.

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

For some reason, people repeatedly have asked RBG when she thought there would be enough women on the court. The question is asinine, her answer effective: 'When there are nine.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Law should be a literary profession, ' RGB says, 'and the best legal practioners regard law as an art as well as a craft.

Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.