#point

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#am #appointment #cases #decide #get

My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#concern #convince #could #enough #i

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#appointment #attention #did #everything #everywhere

The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#baby #china #companies #drill #federal

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#even #exceptional #happiness #history #human

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#in print #more #much #outsider #point

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be. ↗

— Will Oldham

#case #could #ever #exciting #his

You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#bill #content #far #few #follow

You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' ↗

— Bill Parcells

#content #follow #i #legacy #me

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s. ↗

— Candace Parker

#daughter #eventually #generation #get #his way