Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Writing, Views, Freedom Of Speech

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Wendy W. Williams (2016). “My Own Words”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

• My own view, and I've said this many times, is as long as I can do the work full steam, I will stay on the Court. But when I feel myself slipping, when I slow down in my ability to write opinions with fair dispatch, when I forget the names of cases that I once could recite at the drop of a hat, I will know it is time for me to go.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Writing, Views, Names

• My dissenting opinions, like my briefs, are intended to persuade. And sometimes one must be forceful about saying how wrong the Court's decision is.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Decision, Opinion, Sometimes

  Source: newrepublic.com

• Work hard on each opinion, but once the case is decided, don't look back; go on to the next case and give it your all. It's not productive to worry about what's out and released, over and done. That's advice I now give to people new to the judging business.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Hard Work, People, Giving

  Source: newrepublic.com

• In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is highly stylized; you can't tell which judge wrote it.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Law, Judging, Opinion

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