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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
When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
— Sonia Sotomayor
He was teaching the common-law rule against perpetuities, which limits how far into the future a will can control a line of inheritance.
— Sonia Sotomayor
If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is taking a case now the answer?
— Sonia Sotomayor
It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
— Sonia Sotomayor
A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time.
— Sonia Sotomayor
A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115
— Sonia Sotomayor
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Diabetes taught me discipline.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I don't prejudge.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.
— Sonia Sotomayor
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
— Sonia Sotomayor
My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.
— Dahlia Lithwick
You cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
— Sonia Sotomayor
My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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
I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
— Sonia Sotomayor
The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
— Sonia Sotomayor
You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.
— Sonia Sotomayor
You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.
— Sonia Sotomayor
You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.
— Sonia Sotomayor
There are no bystanders in life [ ... ] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Achievement was all very well, but it was the process, not
— Sonia Sotomayor
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
Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.
— Sonia Sotomayor
It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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
The bride Celina and her groom Omar, with Junior, now Dr. Sotomayor. As my first official act,
— Sonia Sotomayor
Virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in heaven.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283
— Sonia Sotomayor
I felt like everyones second choice, which is why a compliment could catch me off guard. Page 106
— Sonia Sotomayor
You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
— Sonia Sotomayor
All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.
— Sonia Sotomayor
People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.
— Sonia Sotomayor
The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don't know about [their status].
— Sonia Sotomayor
To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I couldn't even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita's sadness.
— Sonia Sotomayor
There are no bystanders in this life.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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
The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.
— Sonia Sotomayor
We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.
— Sonia Sotomayor
