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When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not too sure of that.

When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not too sure of that.

Samuel Alito
College, Graduates, Lawyer
"An Interview With Justice Samuel Alito on Immigration, His Mentors and Advice for a Successful Life". Interview with Madaline Donnelly, dailysignal.com. November 09, 2014.

My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything was possible with hard work, and they particularly stressed the importance of education. They instilled that same belief in my sister and me.

Samuel Alito
Teacher, Hard Work, College
"An Interview With Justice Samuel Alito on Immigration, His Mentors and Advice for a Successful Life". Interview with Madaline Donnelly, dailysignal.com. November 09, 2014.

Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights.

Samuel Alito
Country, College, Rights
Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, 130 S. Ct. 2971, 3015-16, 2010.

My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

Samuel Alito
Mother, Father, College
Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.

Samuel Alito
College, Political, Degrees
"An Interview With Justice Samuel Alito on Immigration, His Mentors and Advice for a Successful Life". Interview with Madaline Donnelly, dailysignal.com. November 09, 2014.

It was a time of turmoil at colleges and universities. And I saw some very smart people and very privileged people behaving irresponsibly. And I couldn't help making a contrast between some of the worst of what I saw on the campus and the good sense and the decency of the people back in my own community.

Samuel Alito
Smart, College, People
Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.

Samuel Alito
School, College, Law
Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by the time I graduated from high school, things had changed.

Samuel Alito
School, College, Thinking
Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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