The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

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

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.

Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

This chance will stand before you only once.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

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

That’s what marriage was at its best: You didn’t have to tell your partner to look out, that you were falling. They were just there to catch you.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men I will find something in them which will hang him.

I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.

I'm tired of hyphenated Americans.

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

There are no secrets to running success,anyone who says there are is probably trying to sell you something.

Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.

One of the problems that Hillary Clinton had, and one of the problems that Democrats still have is people don't really know what we stand for.

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.