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Sandra Day O'Connor

Read through the most famous quotes from Sandra Day O'Connor




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.


— Sandra Day O'Connor


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It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.


— Sandra Day O'Connor


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And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.


— Sandra Day O'Connor


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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.


— Sandra Day O'Connor


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A moment of silence is not inherently religious.


— Sandra Day O'Connor


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A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.


— Sandra Day O'Connor


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Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.


— Sandra Day O'Connor


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As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.


— Sandra Day O'Connor


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Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.


— Sandra Day O'Connor


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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.


— Sandra Day O'Connor


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About Sandra Day O'Connor






Did you know about Sandra Day O'Connor?

In 1975 Sandra Day O'Connor was elected to the Maricopa County Superior Court and in 1979 was elevated to the Arizona State Court of Appeals. In a 1983 opinion upholding searches by drug-sniffing dogs Sandra Day O'Connor recognized that a search is most likely to be considered constitutionally reasonable if it is very effective at discovering contraband without revealing innocent but embarrassing information. O'Connor continues to make semi-regular visits to the college.

Samuel Alito was nominated to take her seat in October 2005 and joined the Court on January 31 2006. Several publications have named O'Connor among the most powerful women in the world.

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