Sonia Sotomayor Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.”

“I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.”

“I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.”

“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.”

“It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.”

“We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.”

“A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time.”

“When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.”

“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.”

“Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.”