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

— 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

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Even in my own time and in my own life, I have witnessed a revolution.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

— Sandra Day O'Connor