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Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amount #cases #court #courts #discretion

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#around #comparison #court #nations #occupies

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#airlines #course #damage #goods #injury

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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#alternative #been #begins #considered #country

The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#court #fact #sits

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#delighted #female #just #kind #male

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#depends #exert #gender #i #power

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#certain #certain way #exploited #export #historical

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#court #hostility #i

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#ages #back #beyond #borders #court