Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means – and in any context, whether it’s judicial or otherwise – I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system. Sonia Sotomayor Read Quote
You can’t be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. Sonia Sotomayor Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Being a justice. If you love law the way I do… you’re given the job of a lifetime… you’re permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people’s lives. Sonia Sotomayor Read Quote
When I’m concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew – no matter how loud they talked – if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all. Sonia Sotomayor Read Quote
I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time. Sonia Sotomayor Read Quote
I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I’d feared. Sonia Sotomayor Read Quote
