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"The highest court of the nation behaves like a bunch of old women." William Rehnquist Quotes  
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William Rehnquist was a Supreme Court Chief Justice. He served as a member of the Court for 33 years. Here are some of his famous quotes.

	Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.
	The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engage in gestures of superficial equality.
	The Supreme Court is an institution far more dominated by centrifugal forces, pushing toward individuality and independence, than it is by centripetal forces pulling for hierarchical ordering and institutional unity.
	Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.
	Our judges will not continue to represent the diverse face of America if only the well-to-do or the mediocre are willing to become judges.
	To the extent that libraries wish to offer unfiltered access, they are free to do so without federal assistance.
	[I am mystified at why] the highest court of the nation must behave like a bunch of old women every time they encounter the death penalty.
	[It's] about time the Court faced the fact that the white people of the South don't like the colored people.
	The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock".
	Well, I think it's a very good job. One of the most appealing things about it is that... it enables you to participate in some way and to some extent in the way the country is governed but you're able to maintain a private life as well.

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