226 Quotes by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications.

It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn't realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

I don't think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, 'A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.'