"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."

“Supreme Court Associate Justice Nomination Hearings on Ruth Bader Ginsburg in July 1993”

“There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.”

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg, video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America”

“The emphasis must not be on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.”

“Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues”

“Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature — equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.”