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Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor
American Judge
Born: Jun 25, 1954
Justice Law Life Me People You
Related authors: Clarence Thomas John Roberts Louis D. Brandeis Maryanne Trump Barry Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thurgood Marshall
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. Sonia Sotomayor
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It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. Sonia Sotomayor
Heart Law Cases Conclusions Compels
I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it. Sonia Sotomayor
You People Made Important Think Dreaming See Able Like Beyond Doing Move Just Them
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences. Sonia Sotomayor
Life Good Wise Judge Opportunity Believe Every Background Life Experiences Equal Equal Opportunity Person Experiences Regardless
I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law. Sonia Sotomayor
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I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous. Sonia Sotomayor
Heart Young Spirit Adventurous Still
Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do. Sonia Sotomayor
You Justice Sometimes Job Every Say Boring Drudgery Supposed Know Gets Going
I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain. Sonia Sotomayor
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My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law. Sonia Sotomayor
Law Philosophy Judicial Fidelity
All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial. Sonia Sotomayor
Struggle Our Constantly Impartial Touch Cases Remaining Judges Passions Deeply
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability. Sonia Sotomayor
Life Personal Life Member About More Write Supreme Supreme Court Vulnerability Court Than Personal Candor Measure
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house. Sonia Sotomayor
Mind Lodge Details Examining General Colors Put Powerful Smells House Learned Witnesses Sounds Questions Listener Burning Sensory Ask Elicit Image Associations
Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy. Sonia Sotomayor
God You Think Say Looks Oh Controversy Oh My God Anyone Forward
The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first. Sonia Sotomayor
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I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing. Sonia Sotomayor
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I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them. Sonia Sotomayor
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The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way. Sonia Sotomayor
Time You Judge Political Thinking Way Worst Worst Thing About He He Or She She Principled Era Doing Want Whims Swayed Who Thing
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects. Sonia Sotomayor
Balance Try Action Those Out Concept Biases Built Motivations Testing Cultural Affirmative Effects Affirmative Action
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. Sonia Sotomayor
Legal Experience People Law Made Looking Defense Say Out Never Know Make Policy Because Court Tape Where Should Appeals Funds
I don't prejudge. Sonia Sotomayor
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. Sonia Sotomayor
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To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer. Sonia Sotomayor
Time You Justice Book Wait Bit Guy Written Freer Until Romance Little Little Bit Gonna
I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity. Sonia Sotomayor
Day You Justice Humanity Losing Decision Think Cost Someone Forgets Then Your Each Start
The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified. Sonia Sotomayor
First Before Needless Say Citizens Scared About Case Thrown Talk Terrified Being Sat United
The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law. Sonia Sotomayor
Judge Law Make Task Apply
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. Sonia Sotomayor
Me Business Law Will Party Before Congress Consider Say Written Precedent Any Interest Informed Apply
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