"The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people."

"I think the Notorious R.B.G. was a take-off on the Notorious B.I.G., a person I had never heard of until my grandchildren introduced me to him."

"One of the things that I'm proudest of is that I was a law professor and I taught at Rutgers and at Columbia, and I was able to show young women that they could be lawyers too."

"I think that the court should be a place where fundamental rights are protected."

"Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."