Shirley Hufstedler

“The role of the judge is to be the umpire of the fair game of justice.”

“We have to be visionaries, and we have to be pragmatists.”

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”

“The law is a seamless web, and it is impossible to predict where a tear in one place will lead.”

“Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building.”

“Real education must ultimately be limited to one individual and one other person.”

“The purpose of the department is to promote the national interest and to strengthen the federal commitment to ensuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual.”

“A life in the law is a life in the public service.”

“There is no more important and no more difficult task than that of transmitting a culture to the next generation.”

“Changing things is a lonely business.”