Political Quotes

“I join my colleagues here on the floor tonight to honor and pay tribute to a remarkable legal mind, an incredible American, an icon, an inspiration, and a wonderful human being: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, known to the younger generation as the ``Notorious RBG.'' RBG was born into a world in which few, if any, opportunities existed for women beyond the role of wife and mother. She helped build a world in which the doors were opened; the doors of opportunity were blown wide. It was a powerful, powerful undertaking, and she was extraordinarily successful in it. She graduated from high school at 15. She went on to college. She went on to law school. She graduated in a class of 500 students, and she tied for first in her class in 1959. I was 3 years old at that point. Then she applied for jobs, and she faced the discrimination of ``You are a woman, so we cannot hire you at our corporate law firm.'' Then she applied for clerkships with the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court Justices said: You are a woman, and our doors are closed to you. Perhaps this was a fortuitous moment because she went on, therefore, to take on a job as professor at Columbia University and from that to lead the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU. As director of the ACLU Women's Rights Project, she argued six landmark gender discrimination cases before the Court.…”