I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.
I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.
Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.
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.
In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called upon to decide. It provides the stability and continuity for the rule of law.
The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.
It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.
Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?
I do not believe it is the function of the judiciary to step in and change the law because the times have changed. I do well understand the difference between legislating and judging. As a judge, it is not my function to develop public policy.
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.
I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.
The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.
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.
Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.
So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food, and drink beer and make friends? That's the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we'll come out of it all right.
A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.
I need to retire from retirement.
If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.
