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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.
- Latina
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.
- Equal Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
- Bend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't prejudge.
- Equal Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happy Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.
- Elicit
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- Nov 07, 2020
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020