"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

"When I'm sometimes asked, 'When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?' and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody ever raised a question abo…"

"You're saying, no, state marriage [is] the full marriage, and then this sort of skim milk marriage."

"I wasn't 100 percent sure I would be confirmed by the Senate. But I thought it would be a shame if the best person for the job was not nominated because of fear of what might happen."

"I think it's important to have a sense of purpose. To know what you're working towards."