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All Quotes by author - Sonia Sotomayor

" A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time. "

" All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent. "

" All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial. "

" All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know. "

" Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich. "

" An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. "

" Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives. "

" Diabetes taught me discipline. "

" Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. "

" Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law. "

" I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it. "

" I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences. "

" I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions. "

" I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing. "

" I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life. "

" I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared. "

" I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate. "

" I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences. "

" I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth. "

" I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it. "

" I don't prejudge. "

" I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me. "

" I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time. "

" I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. "

" If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. "

" I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good. "

" If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be. "

" If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them. "

" If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs. "

" I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run. "

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