"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."

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

"The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender."

"A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens."

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

"In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change."

"I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from."

"There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side."