I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered. -Sonia Sotomayor Positive
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. -Sonia Sotomayor History
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it. -Sonia Sotomayor Morning
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. -Sonia Sotomayor Hope
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 Legal
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. -Sonia Sotomayor Home
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government. -Sonia Sotomayor Government
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. -Sonia Sotomayor Legal
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. -Sonia Sotomayor Hope
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. -Sonia Sotomayor Marriage
You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down. -Sonia Sotomayor Failure
We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice. -Sonia Sotomayor Society
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. -Sonia Sotomayor Positive
It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society. -Sonia Sotomayor Society
We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice. -Sonia Sotomayor Legal
I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive. -Sonia Sotomayor Positive
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. -Sonia Sotomayor Independence
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. -Sonia Sotomayor Hope
